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- noun An
Egyptian doorman .
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Examples
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A little boy called Ahmed appointed himself bowab, doorman and factotum, and he busied himself running errands for Mr. Abu Halaweh.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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A little boy called Ahmed appointed himself bowab, doorman and factotum, and he busied himself running errands for Mr. Abu Halaweh.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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A little boy called Ahmed appointed himself bowab, doorman and factotum, and he busied himself running errands for Mr. Abu Halaweh.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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A little boy called Ahmed appointed himself bowab, doorman and factotum, and he busied himself running errands for Mr. Abu Halaweh.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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Would it be strange to the bowab or the slave that he should return with thee stark and still?
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Then in anger the Prince would have given her to his bowab at the gates, or to the Nile, after the manner of a Turk or a
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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I am the bowab and the sarraf, the man-of-all - work, the Jack-of-all-trades, the 'confidential' to the Oriental spendthrift.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897
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I am the bowab and the sarraf, the man-of-all - work, the Jack-of-all-trades, the 'confidential' to the Oriental spendthrift.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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England at the front door, do the bowab and the sarraf go out to take air on the housetops, and watch the sun set on the Pyramids and make a rainbow of the desert?
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Then in anger the Prince would have given her to his bowab at the gates, or to the Nile, after the manner of a Turk or a
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897
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