Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sheik .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
sheik .
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- noun Archaic form of
sheik .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And thus, in every land, civilisation and national life has arisen out of the patriarchal state; and the Eastern scheik, with his wives, free and slave, and his hundreds of fighting men born in his house, is the type of all primaeval rulers.
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No scheik or emir among the Arabs wanders about the desert half so sumptuously provided.
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