Word: fellaheen
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...three days Cairo's teeming population was tripled. To feed and clothe the visiting horde tons of mutton and beef were roasted and distributed in the city parks, untold galabiahs, the long cotton nightshirts which are the chief garments of the Egyptian fellaheen, were given away. Considering the excitement with which Egyptians approach such a simple problem as boarding a street car, it was a triumph for Cairo's police and details of the Egyptian Army that only 400 people fell from balconies, were trampled to death, pushed under cars, into the Nile, or otherwise injured...
...Egypt been unearthed. And even the minor trappings of the royal person have hitherto been scarcely above ground. The reason is that previously discovered mummies have been stripped by thieves before the savants got at them. Every yield of ancient splendor laughs ironically at Egypt's squalorous fellaheen of today...
...called Sheikh-Abd-el-Qurna, in the Valley of the Kings. Two of the mummies, excellently preserved, were the bodies of a goldsmith and a priestess, his wife. The woman's clothing was wrapped with the body and was found to be practically identical with that worn by the Fellaheen women today...