Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sheik .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
sheik .
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- noun Archaic form of
sheik .
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Examples
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And thus, in every land, civilisation and national life has arisen out of the patriarchal state; and the Eastern scheik, with his wives, free and slave, and his hundreds of fighting men born in his house, is the type of all primaeval rulers.
The Ancien Regime Charles Kingsley 1847
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No scheik or emir among the Arabs wanders about the desert half so sumptuously provided.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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