Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Persia and India, an official appointed to act as courier to a traveler of distinction.
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- noun An official
courier appointed toescort an important traveller in Persian-speaking countries and the Indian subcontinent.
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the present occasion, luckily for us, our mehmandar reversed this popular saying; and it was amusing to see the struggles of himself and his attendants to get us through the deep snow.
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The mehmandar, however, swore all the oaths ever on the lips of a Persian, that move we should, and move we did.
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Governor of the province of Azerbijan, in which we now had arrived, had despatched from his capital, Tabreez, a mehmandar, of the rank of brigadier, with a large suite and escort, to receive the English Minister on setting foot in Persia, and to conduct him to Tabreez ..
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The journal of the Persian princes (a translation of which, by their Syrian mehmandar, Assaad
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various
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