cafila

From Arabic قَافِلَة‎ (qāfila). Doublet of coffle.

cafila (plural cafilas)

1. A caravan of travellers or supplies.
   • 1816, William Beckford, Vathek, Oxford 2013, p. 41:

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

   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer, ch. 10:

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

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