dragoman
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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
In ten minutes he completed the following and the dragoman took it away with him, highly pleased:— To Whom It May Concern—Greeting:—The bearer, Mahmoud, is a dragoman of monumental mendacity and commercial Machiavellism.
From In Pastures New by Ade, George
Gutschmid has supported the Herodotean inscription on the strength of papyri from the times of Ramses Miamen in Philologus, 10, 644; the "talents" in any case must be left for the dragoman.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
A dragoman he was not, though he called himself our "tergeman."
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa
Our Arabs, p. 37however, and the dragomans kept them singing till a late hour round the fires lighted among the tents.
From Byeways in Palestine by Finn, James
Already Yuhanna and the other dragomans jeered at him in the streets, acclaiming the triumph of Elias, their own comrade.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
Pictures show them as gigantic blocks up which stout ladies are being "boosted"—sorry, but there is no other word—by heated dragomans.
From Round the Wonderful World by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)
He shot a glance over his shoulder at the other dragomans.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
He jerked his thumb in the direction of the other dragomans, now howling in chorus to the strains of the concertina.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
In the time of Chukri Bey they were kind, faithful dragomen who did their best to save us from being swindled in the bazaars.
From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John
But greatest of all were the expectations of the dragomen, who were most sullen if anything less than one or two pound note or gold piece was offered them.
From My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 by Hunt, Eleonora
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 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Again, there are many second and third-rate baths, whither cheating dragomen conduct their victims, in consideration of a division of spoils with the bath-keeper.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard
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