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Dragomans, not dragomen, is the plural of dragoman, an Eastern interpreter.

From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.

This she filled with a large retinue of dragomen, women, slaves, and Albanian guards.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

To-day, being the last of our imprisonment, we have received many tokens of attention from dragomen, who have sent their papers through the grate to us, to be returned to-morrow after our liberation.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard

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 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

On the wide pavement in front of the piazza of the hotel, dragomen in elaborate Arabic costumes were offering their services as guides or interpreters.

From A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Jacob, Robert Urie