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Word: soffamaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Usage:

...left the mosque as best I could, and, putting the finger of perplexity in the mouth of deliberation, I asked a harmless-looking youth of the tribe called Soffamaw, what it was the will of the Mollahs of the place that I should do next. "Oh!" said he, (and may the Prophet singe his beard!)* "you must go to Or-phiz; every one goes to Or-phiz. Knock at the door, and ask the reverend Mollah with the white beard for his wife, the moon-faced Messisahriz." By the word wife these dogs mean the principal lady of the harem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNE LETTRE PERSANE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

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