dragoman

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

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 Julia Ward Howe

There he doubtless hired his Karian dragoman, with whom he sailed away over the inundated land to Sais.

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

Doubtless his dragoman had told him something of the kind.

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

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 Marmaduke William Pickthall

For the dragomans and their kind the house of Karlsberger stood for the fashion and gay life of Europe.

From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall

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 Marmaduke William Pickthall

The original employment of dragomans by the Turkish government arose from its religious scruples to use any language save those of peoples which had adopted Islamism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

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 Henry Van Dyke

Plans were made with T. Cook & Sons for dragomen and provisions, when all were frustrated by quarantine being declared.

From My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt

From this point forward Herodotos no longer derived his information from “the Egyptians themselves,” that is to say, from his guides and dragomen, but “from the rest of the world.”

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

The story is a curious mixture of Egyptian and Semitic elements, while the inscription which the dragomen pretended to read upon the statue is a Greek invention.

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

In the time of Chukri Bey they were kind, faithful dragomen who did their best to save us from being swindled in the bazaars.

From A Prisoner in Turkey by John Still

This she filled with a large retinue of dragomen, women, slaves, and Albanian guards.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams