dragoman
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dragomans,
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dragomen
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Origin of dragoman
First recorded in 1300–50; from French; replacing Middle English drogman “interpreter,” from Middle French drog ( o ) man, dragoman, from Medieval Greek drago ( u ) mános, from Semitic; compare Arabic tarjumān, Akkadian targumannu
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Some men did manage to get into the boats, notably Henry Sleeper Harper, of the publishing family, who took along an Egyptian dragoman and his Pekingese named Sun Yatsen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he said to his dragoman, "Ask him what he wants of me."
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
Let his fellows grumble and objurgate, said he; they would cringe to him when he became a dragoman, with his pockets stuffed with piastres.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Dr. N. and his son were in want, and Paul entered their service as dragoman and superintendent of another man, who, they said, was worth a dozen of Paul.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
In the same way banks, railway companies and financial institutions employ dragomans for facilitating their business relations with Turkish officials.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
Just now there's no trafellers comin' to the country, so the dragomans just stand around and jolly well watch all what you do.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
Sheikhs there were with flowing robes, dragomans who spoke no Arabic, Sultans and priests of Ancient Egypt, going arm-in-arm.
From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer
Outside the hotel several Bedouin dragomans sauntered about or sat smoking and chatting; and a few camels and donkeys, saddled in readiness for hire, stood tethered near by.
From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal
Iskender still had hope to foil the dragomans.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
We have done the best we could, however, in sending one of the outside dragomen to purchase a Bible, in which we succeeded.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor
It is the order in which he visited the monuments to which the dragomen attached their names, and it thus throws a welcome light on the course of his movements.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The story is a curious mixture of Egyptian and Semitic elements, while the inscription which the dragomen pretended to read upon the statue is a Greek invention.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
From this point forward Herodotos no longer derived his information from “the Egyptians themselves,” that is to say, from his guides and dragomen, but “from the rest of the world.”
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
But whatever might have been the reason, Saqqâra and its Serapeum were unknown to the dragomen, and consequently to Herodotos as well.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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