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- noun Plural form of
faqir .
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Examples
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(Overblown imperial anxiety about such faqirs or akhonds, Pashtun religious leaders, inspired Victorian satirists such as Edward Lear, who began one poem, "Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akond of Swat?")
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We had come, they said, to the great gathering-place of the faqirs (devotees).
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The faqirs of this order worship only such, and are very proud of the fact that the chisel and hammer are not employed in the divine manufacture.
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The house at which our conductor at last halted was rather below the dignity of the gods and the faqirs, and I must own to having felt rather apprehensive when I heard that the next item on our novel programme was the ascent of an appallingly dark staircase – narrower and steeper (I am sure) than the thirty-four little gods 'way of salvation.
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Union Square, and it had music from the four provinces of Pakistan, including traditional faqirs who perform outside temples, Sufi rock and a kind of rapping from Baluchistan.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Union Square, and it had music from the four provinces of Pakistan, including traditional faqirs who perform outside temples, Sufi rock and a kind of rapping from Baluchistan.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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