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‖ choultry Anglo-Ind.|ˈtʃaʊltrɪ|
Also choltry.
[Corruption of Telugu cháwaḍi, or Malayālam cháwaṭi, Dakhanī chāoṛi; sometimes more accurately represented as chawadī, chowree, chouri.]
1. A place for the reception and accommodation of travellers; an inn, caravanserai; also used for the transaction of public business (Yule).
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 82 (Y.) Little better Tenements than Booths stiled by the name of Choultries. 1783Burke Sp. Fox's E. India Bill Wks. IV. 79 The country was full of choultries, which were inns and hospitals where the traveller and the poor were relieved. 1816Poetry in Ann. Reg. 637 This Choultry's ample space The way-worn traveller's resting place. 1858J. B. Norton Topics 197 Posting up a copy of this document in the choultry or most conspicuous place in each village.
2. The pillared hall or colonnade of a temple.
1772Call Signs Zodiac in Phil. Trans. LXII. 353, I searched in my travels many other pagodas, or choultrys, for similar carvings. 1858Beveridge Hist. India II. iv. iv. 147 Another appendage of these temples is the choultry, or pillared colonnade. 1862R. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 417 In front of the temple or choultry where the idol reposes. |