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chowk
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chowk [tʃaʊk]
n (in the Indian subcontinent)
1. (Business / Commerce) (often in place names) a marketplace or market area Vijay Chowk
2. a courtyard
3. a road junction or roundabout
[from Hindi cauk]


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Once through the massive but rather welcoming walls, the city is a warren of narrow streets that open unexpectedly into little chowks, or squares, from each of which another half-dozen or so passages lead.
The scheme takes its form from the traditional tenement, Illuminated and ventilated by chowks, light wells penetrating the mass of the building.
 
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