pacha
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Mr. Hood invites him, when he visits Iraq again, to sit down together to eat pacha — a typical Iraqi dish of stuffed sheep intestines.
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2021
Some nouns adjective are declined with three terminations—as a pacha of three tails would be, if 30 he were to make a proposal to an English heiress—as bonus, good—tener, tender.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John
Orders were given that the person who had sheltered Emir should deliver him up to the pacha; but the officer resolved that he would not give him up.
From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous
It was from the pacha that I learned that Haspir and Ali were slaves.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
He afterwards went to St. Jean d'Acre, with the object of settling with the pacha a treaty of commerce, and found him pacifically inclined.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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