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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of a body of light infantry raised among the natives of Algeria for service in the French army, and properly called Algerian tirailleurs. Also Turko.
- n. A small Chilian bird, Hylactes megapodius.
Examples
“But "turco" may also mean black -- in accordance with the tradition that the Turks, the Saracens, were a black race.”
“_ When our red is to be signified, they will use the word "turco," which came in with the well-known dye-stuff of which the Turks once monopolized the secret.”
“Then they viddied themselves as real sophistoes, which was like pathetic, and started talking in big-lady golosses about the Ritz and the Bristol and the Hilton and Il Ristorante Gran - turco.”
“Esref Armagan é um pintor turco cego desde a nascença... um pintor cego?”
“Existe mesmo um turco pintor, cego desde a nascença.”
“This even the Turks could see; and a firman had been procured without difficulty, enabling them to erect their houses and to lease and cultivate a certain portion of land, planting American seed-wheat and maize where before grew only _gran turco_, barley, sesamum and anise.”
“Policemen, trim little grisettes (for whatever is said to the contrary, the grisette is still extant in Paris), nurse girls with turbaned heads and ugly red streamers, wheeling ugly red babies; an occasional stray zouave or turco in curt Turkish jacket and white leggings; grave old gentlemen with white mustache and military step; gay, baggy gentlemen from St Cyr, looking like newly-painted wooden soldiers; students from the Ecole Polytechnique; students from the”
“Italians call our corn _gran turco_, but I knew that it was for the”
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“NOTA: Este producto contiene cáscara sagrada, palo de bañón (buckthorn) y ruibarbo turco”
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