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

With my dragoman I paid my official calls upon the Grand Vizier and the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Porte, both of whom received me in full-dress uniform and immediately returned the calls.

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

I recognised him as a professional dragoman offered to us by Cook the week before.

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb

A dragoman he was not, though he called himself our "tergeman."

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb

The more important consulates in the provinces of Turkey are also provided with one or more dragomans, whose duties, mutatis mutandis, are of a similar though less important nature.

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

The high estimation in which the dragomans are held by most foreign powers is shown by the fact that they are usually and in the regular course promoted to the most important diplomatic posts.

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

The despair of his mother, the hateful triumph of the missionaries, the derisive laughter of the dragomans, came before his mind.

From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall

Outside the hotel several Bedouin dragomans sauntered about or sat smoking and chatting; and a few camels and donkeys, saddled in readiness for hire, stood tethered near by.

From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal

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 A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest

But whatever might have been the reason, Saqqâra and its Serapeum were unknown to the dragomen, and consequently to Herodotos as well.

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

He hasn't seen lion yet, but has heard a lot about the one which is causing a panic amongst the dragomen in Luxor.

From The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest

There is evidence also, that, after the Greek revolution, they took advantage of the fact that nearly all the dragomen of foreign ministers at the Turkish court were Roman Catholics.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. by Rufus Anderson

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

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 A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce