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  • proper noun Alternative form of Bushehr.

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Examples

  • We have been favored with the following letter dated Bushire, August 10:

    Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab Rothwell Polk 2011

  • We have been favored with the following letter dated Bushire, August 10:

    Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab Rothwell Polk 2011

  • About the same time Shaykh Nasr, Governor of Bushire, a man famed for facetious blackguardism, used to invite European youngsters serving in the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then he put on long hair and a venerable beard, stained his limbs with henna, and called himself Abdullah of Bushire, a half-Arab.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • The Arab slaver generally marries his properly as a ruse, and arrived at Muscat or Bushire, divorces and sells them.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • Agreement with the English East India Company, allowing its agents to establish a commercial base in the port of Bushire, after the company's trading outpost in Bandar Abbas was destroyed by the French (1759).

    1726 2001

  • Bushire served as a headquarters of British commercial and political activity in the Persian Gulf region into the 20th century.

    1726 2001

  • They went out through the gates of Bushire on to the great plain of burning sand that stretched away for ninety miles ahead of them.

    The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

  • When he landed at Bushire he bought and wore the clothes of a Persian gentleman, so that he should escape from attracting everybody's notice by wearing clothes such as the people had never seen before.

    The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

  • So on Lady Day, 1811, the sailors got her under weigh and tacked northward up the Gulf, till at last, on May 21, the roofs and minarets of Bushire hove in sight.

    The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

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