fakir
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Gillian Murphy brought her imposing technical attack to the role of the treacherous princess Gamzatti, and Alexei Agoudine pumped delirious gesticulation and wild jumps into overdrive as the lead fakir.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2018
He thereafter wore a loincloth and shawl, looking not much different from the way Churchill famously described him later as a fakir striding “half-naked” up the steps of the viceroy’s palace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2016
As both were guests in the studio, the fakir was put to the test immediately.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2014
When a Hindu fakir declared on live television that he could kill anybody with tantric chanting, Sanal Edamaruku simply had to take him up on the challenge.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2014
The pretended guide who says that the painted panorama, seen from the rubber-tired car, is as good as the view from the summit is simply a fakir and is generally recognized as such.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
Vocabulary lists containing fakir
"The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
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