askari
an African police officer or soldier, especially one serving a colonial administration.
Origin of askari
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How to use askari in a sentence
It has been six months since unknown insurgents destroyed the Al-askari mosque in Samarra.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGraceful as a deer was Nazoro, and a good askari lost in a better operating-room boy.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign | Robert Valentine DolbeyLoads were piled neatly, covered with a tarpaulin, and the pile guarded by an askari.
The Leopard Woman | Stewart Edward WhiteHe thought of going out to join the askari, or native guard, who was keeping watch some thirty feet away.
The Forest of Mystery | James H. FosterIt seemed absolutely endless, and once or twice I feared that two of the askari would have died of the wet, cold, and exposure.
Allan Quatermain | H. Rider Haggard
Fortunately there were at Lamu at this time a party of Wakwafi askari (soldiers).
Allan Quatermain | H. Rider Haggard
British Dictionary definitions for askari
/ (asˈkaːri) /
(in East Africa) a soldier or policeman
Origin of askari
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