dahabeah

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I hear she has a magnificent electric dahabeah, and if she will let us charter it She won't," said Denzil hastily, "unless she goes with it herself You seem to know a great deal about her," observed Dr. Dean indulgently, "and why should she not go herself?

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  • Gleyre's best-known picture is the painting in the Louvre, somewhat weak in colouring, but showing much feeling, a Nile subject representing a man sitting on the banks of the river and watching the dreams of his youth, represented as beautiful women, fleeing from him on a decorated dahabeah, which is disappearing. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • They employed the same means of transport, for, excepting the cut of the sails, the modern dahabeah is an exact counterpart of the pleasure and passenger boats shown on the monuments. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12)
  • I hear she has a magnificent electric dahabeah, and if she will let us charter it She won't," said Denzil hastily, "unless she goes with it herself You seem to know a great deal about her," observed Dr. Dean indulgently, "and why should she not go herself? —  Ziska
  • Let us have a dahabeah! —  Ziska
  • I hear she has a magnificent electric dahabeah, and if she will let us charter it. ... " —  Ziska
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  1. Arabic ḏahabīya, the Golden One, name of the gilded barge of the Muslim rulers of Egypt, from ḏahabīy, golden, from ḏahab, gold; see ḏhb in Semitic roots.
 

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