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bashi-bazouk
[ bash-ee-buh-zook ]
noun
- (formerly) one of a class of irregular mounted troops in the Turkish military service.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bashi-bazouk1
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Example Sentences
Even a bashi-bazouk must have quailed before that amazing declaration and that patient resignation to fate.
There is something about him as exotic as a samovar, as essentially un-American as a bashi-bazouk, a nose-ring or a fugue.
The sand of the desert, Seti's breath and the tail of his yelek made the coat of Bashi-Bazouk like silk.
Failure would seem to have been inevitable, but the pluck and enterprise of the ex-Bashi-bazouk overcame all difficulties.
Compared with Albania, London, even now in the eyes of the ex-Bashi-bazouk, is a vast and uncivilised wilderness.
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