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
What Herodotos tells us about them plainly comes from his Karian dragoman, and refers to some native Karian festival.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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
"When I heard of the affair I asked the dragoman why he had lied so outrageously and he calmly replied: "'Oh, I thought it polite to give the gentleman what he wanted.'
From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary
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)
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 Pickthall, Marmaduke William
In the same way banks, railway companies and financial institutions employ dragomans for facilitating their business relations with Turkish officials.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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
The courteous manners of the dragomans who fill the hall of the hotel are amusing.
From Cities of the Dawn by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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 Hunt, Eleonora
By the time he was ready for the last step, the cooks and some of the dragomen were watching.
From The Egyptian Cat Mystery by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
But the whole story was an invention of the dragomen.
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.
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)
