Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Bedouin , 1.
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Examples
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I had also received a quick tutorial concerning the society into which we were moving, Arab (both hadari, “settled,” and bedawi, “nomadic”), Jew (some of whom had ancestors here in the days of Temple sacrifice), and myriad splintered varieties of Christian.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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I had also received a quick tutorial concerning the society into which we were moving, Arab (both hadari, “settled,” and bedawi, “nomadic”), Jew (some of whom had ancestors here in the days of Temple sacrifice), and myriad splintered varieties of Christian.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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You dare talk to me of dollars and silks as though I were a fellaheen beggar or a bedawi, and evade my question!”
Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005
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