dragoman
Example Sentences
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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
I was seated at His Majesty's right, with the dragoman next to me, and the Grand Vizier was at the left; down both sides sat the pashas, their breasts sparkling with diamond orders.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.
The great man's easy-chair—by no means a splendid one—was then carried on board, and the great man himself, accompanied by his son-in-law and his dragoman, came among us.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
A dragoman he was not, though he called himself our "tergeman."
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa
