dragoman

Some men did manage to get into the boats, notably Henry Sleeper Harper, of the publishing family, who took along an Egyptian dragoman and his Pekingese named Sun Yatsen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities.

From Time Magazine Archive

He discounted the timorous statements of his dragoman, Ibrahim, but one who knew had warned him at El Ksar.

From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

It is quite possible, therefore, that the scribe whom Herodotos met was acquainted with the Greek language, and that no dragoman was required to interpret his words.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

With my dragoman, Mr. Gargiulo, I then proceeded with the Chief Introducer of Ambassadors into the presence of the Sultan while the rest of my staff were detained in an anteroom.

From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.

He jerked his thumb in the direction of the other dragomans, now howling in chorus to the strains of the concertina.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

Sheikhs there were with flowing robes, dragomans who spoke no Arabic, Sultans and priests of Ancient Egypt, going arm-in-arm.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax

It has taken him years to learn all he knows, and it is only the clever boys who can become good dragomans.

From Round the Wonderful World by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)

Much of this, no doubt, is due to the wisdom, tact, and firmness of George the Bethlehemite, the best of dragomans.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry

For company he had been obliged to consort with English-speaking touts and dragomans, who welcomed his proficiency in the foreign tongue; and these he hated, for they mocked his art.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

She had difficulty in getting guides and dragomen.

From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon

It is the order in which he visited the monuments to which the dragomen attached their names, and it thus throws a welcome light on the course of his movements.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

Dragomans, not dragomen, is the plural of dragoman, an Eastern interpreter.

From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.

Such was the way in which Egyptian history was constructed by the combined efforts of the popular imagination, the foreign dragomen, and Herodotos!

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

It must have been the invention of the Karian dragomen who came into existence under the Saitic dynasty.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)