dragoman
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dragomans,
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dragomen
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noun
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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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Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
What Herodotos tells us about them plainly comes from his Karian dragoman, and refers to some native Karian festival.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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 Max Duncker
Briefly, he acted as a sort of amateur dragoman without any of the qualifications usually expected of these gentlemen—and possessing a great many of the virtues in which, as a rule, they are sadly lacking.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
Several of the dragomans were there, including Abdullah, uncle of Iskender, who questioned Elias in no peaceful tone.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
For the dragomans and their kind the house of Karlsberger stood for the fashion and gay life of Europe.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
Iskender still had hope to foil the dragomans.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
Abdullah demanded on behalf of Iskender that all who professed any knowledge of the matter should be called and questioned in the hearing of the group of dragomans.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
Grown rich by his favours and by the gold of England, these dragomans enlightened the unsuspecting ignorance of the Turks, as to the occupation and military surveys of the Ottoman frontiers by the French.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur
It must have been the invention of the Karian dragomen who came into existence under the Saitic dynasty.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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 Eleonora Hunt
Cairo is the successor of Memphis, and 'the caste' of the dragomen is not yet extinct.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
But the whole story was an invention of the dragomen.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Dragomans, not dragomen, is the plural of dragoman, an Eastern interpreter.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by L. P. Meredith
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