Definition of "khana" []

• Food, a meal (noun)

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• "This image of the mashin khana is notable for referencing the use of steam power which was incorporated into older production processes involving ropes and pulleys."
• "See Chapter 4 for more attention to the mashin khana, and below for a state document dealing with the movements of one of those European technocratic confidantes of Abd al-Rahman."
• "However, at the end of his reign various European novelties and commodities destined for mass reproduction at the mashin khana, ceremonial display, or consumption at the palaces, courts, and homes of the supraelite of Kabul, were also imported from India with subsidy funds. 67 Like the subsidy itself, the mashin khana was oriented toward satisfying the state's needs."