bashas

The plaited-bamboo outbuildings, called “bashas” or “cadjans,” were connected to the main building by narrow cement walks that, she soon discovered, became rivers of gurgling red-brown water and debris after every rainstorm.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

The plaited-bamboo outbuildings, called “bashas” or “cadjans,” were connected to the main building by narrow cement walks that, she soon discovered, became rivers of gurgling red-brown water and debris after every rainstorm.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Then the bashas and captaines entred into the trenches, ech to his place after their order and dignity: that is to wit, Mustafa Basha as chiefe captaine entred the trench direct to the bulwarke of England with his people and captaines vnder him.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

When the bashas and captaines of the hoste vnderstood the sayd warnings, they all purposed for to tary, and caused those tidings of the towne to be knowen ouer all the army.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Mohammedan Sabbath, Christians will gain possession of the cities while the kaids and bashas are in the mosques.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Connected with the bashas and kaids, who are the only great men in the country or in the cities, there is little or no respect or formality.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Life exists upon life, from the _sheikhs_ (farmers), who live upon what they can squeeze out of the peasants, to the _bashas_ (governors), who exist on tithes, taxes, and extortion wrung from the sheikhs and townspeople, up to higher officials, who receive no salaries, and line their pockets by a process of bleeding the bashas and others ... ... thus _ad lib_.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

When their numbers have been greatly swelled, certain of them are drafted on as presents to kaids and bashas.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

The bashas and kaids of Morocco were all gnashing their teeth, while we were at Marrakesh, over the new system of taxation, which the Sultan and

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

He asked me many questions about England, about the queen, and her _bashas_, or nobles; and enquired how she could carry on war against so great a monarch as the king of Spain, for he believed that all Europe was under his government.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784