backsheesh
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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One cannot get along without them, and yet they are so importunate in their demands for backsheesh that they become a nuisance.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
By degrees, however, the guests stole away; the women ceased to peep through the curtains; and the children left off asking Baroni to give them backsheesh.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
I am afraid I demoralized the whole tribe, for some friends who went the next day were told of an American who had been there the day before, who had given "beautiful backsheesh."
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
Like all cowardly compromises, this one shaped itself into a two-edged sword; and soon every rover from Mogador to the Gates of the Bosphorus was clamouring for backsheesh.
From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole
In Stamboul it is customary, when a bargain of any importance is completed, for the seller to make the buyer a present of some small object, which is called the backsheesh, or gift.
From Paul Patoff by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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