Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
Bedouin .
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- noun Dated form of Bedouin.
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- noun a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs
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Examples
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A fourth mode of misinterpreting the sacred narrative is the attempt to account for it on the basis of what we might term the Beduin-ideal theory.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Several of the buildings in the town housed trinket stores and sold things such as Beduin cloth, souvenirs, postcards of the Godforsaken main street, and any number of other things.
The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra Heather McDougal 2008
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Several of the buildings in the town housed trinket stores and sold things such as Beduin cloth, souvenirs, postcards of the Godforsaken main street, and any number of other things.
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Kanmakan is the typical Arab Knight, gentle and valiant as Don Quixote Sabbáh is the Grazioso, a "Beduin" Sancho Panza.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Tacitus admired the Germanic tribes, Herodotus the barbarian Scythians, Ibn Khaldun the nomadic Beduin, and the Chinese the Mongols. [more ...]
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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Tacitus admired the Germanic tribes, Herodotus the barbarian Scythians, Ibn Khaldun the nomadic Beduin, and the Chinese the Mongols. [more ...]
Avatar--An Addendum 2010
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Indigenous Arabs (Beduin from Al Badiyah or the deserts) have a lot of wisdom to share
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Indigenous Arabs (Beduin from Al Badiyah or the deserts) have a lot of wisdom to share
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I had always wanted a Beduin camel-blanket and found one in a little store run by a young man who looked as if he were about fifteen.
The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra Heather McDougal 2008
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Indigenous Arabs (Beduin from Al Badiyah or the deserts) have a lot of wisdom to share
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