cafila

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1. A caravan of travellers or supplies.

   [W]e heard sounds at a distance, which we conjectured to proceed from the bells of a Cafila, passing over the rocks.

   1816, William Beckford, Vathek, Oxford, published 2013, page 41

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   I heard someone who seemed to know say that Vodalus was far to the north, hiding among the frost-pinched forests and raiding kafilas.

   1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 100