Dragomen

Word DRAGOMEN
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What do we mean by dragomen?

An interpreter, especially for the Arabic and Turkish languages.

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The word "dragomen" in example sentences

Hitherto, in all my wandering, I had been under the care of other people — sailors, Tatars, guides, and dragomen had watched over my welfare, but now at last I was here in this African desert, and I MYSELF, AND NO OTHER, HAD CHARGE OF MY ❋ Unknown (2003)

Basil was standing with Miss Ashmore, waiting for the dragomen to finish bullying the townsfolk as they loaded their belongings into the tiny boat. ❋ Chase, Loretta (1988)

The dragomen of the Luxor hotels shouted out the advantages of their various hostelries and attempted to drag bewildered tourists into the waiting carriages. ❋ Peters, Elizabeth, 1927- (1981)

Hotel couriers or dragomen are walking encylopà ¦ dias. ❋ Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves (N/A)

He hasn't seen lion yet, but has heard a lot about the one which is causing a panic amongst the dragomen in Luxor. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)

She had difficulty in getting guides and dragomen. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)

It was no good applying to the hotels or tourist agencies, for there were few visitors in the city and dragomen were therefore not needed. ❋ Percy Addleshaw (1891)

Holcombe used to watch her from out of the shadow when the firelight lit up the circle and the tips of the palms above them, and when the story-teller's voice was accompanied by bursts of occasional laughter from the dragomen in the grove beyond, and the stamping and neighing of the horses at their pickets, and the unceasing chorus of the insect life about them. ❋ Richard Harding Davis (1890)

Oh, talking of dragomen (you see I _will_ call them that!), we still have Bedr, though I know you thought we ought to give him up, and I don't see how we are ever to discharge him now, for he has attached himself to Rachel G. in the most wonderful way. ❋ Unknown (1889)

The Temple of the Sun, where the beauty of Asenath beguiled the Israelite to forget his sale into bondage and banishment, lies in shapeless hillocks, over which canter the mules of dragomen and chatter the tongues of tourists. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)

American Consuls at Alexandria and Beirout to give notice that we wanted dragomen and transportation. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

Thus are people persecuted by dragomen, whose sole ambition in life is to get ahead of each other. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

We knew very well that Palestine was a country which did not do a large passenger business, and every man we came across who knew any thing about it gave us to understand that not half of our party would be able to get dragomen and animals. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

As might have been expected, a notion got abroad in Syria and Egypt that the whole population of the Province of America (the Turks consider us a trifling little province in some unvisited corner of the world,) were coming to the Holy Land -- and so, when we got to Beirout yesterday, we found the place full of dragomen and their outfits. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

Hitherto, in all my wandering, I had been under the care of other people — sailors, Tatars, guides, and dragomen had watched over my welfare, but now at last I was here in this African desert, and I ❋ Alexander William Kinglake (1850)

'When we parted last, I was, in a certain sense, my lord's subordinate -- that is, there were things none of his staff or secretaries or attachés or dragomen could do, and I could do them. ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)

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