aoul

Noun

aul (plural auls)

1. A village encampment in the Caucasus, Central Asia or the Southern Urals.
   • His sorrel face, his long narrow eyes and dusty boots, where he goes on his travels and what really transpires inside the lonely hide tents Out There, among the auls, out in that wind, these are mysteries they don’t care to enter or touch.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN

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