lamaserai

English

Etymology

From French lamaserie, reinterpreted as lama +‎ serai.

Noun

lamaserai (plural lamaserais)

Dated form of lamasery.
- 1915, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, Fifty-One Tales:
  Meanwhile Thlunrana, that secret lamaserai, that chief cathedral of wizardry, was the terror of the valley in which it stood and of all lands round about it.

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