dragoman

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

My dragoman had a mule and I a donkey.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis

A friend going through the valley of the Euphrates tried to get his dragoman to pitch his tent near the ruins, and failed.

From Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study by Moody, Dwight Lyman

I could now feel for the sufferings of our poor dragoman during his long trot from Houidouk to the Caspian.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de