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- noun Plural form of
Arnaut .
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Examples
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They are also known as Arnauts and call themselves in their own language skipetar, "mountaineers" (see ALBANIA).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The Albanians (more of an ethnographic than a geographic term) are called Arnauts (Arnaoots, Arnaouts) by the other peoples of the
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( "Arnauts" was the Tsarevich's favorite expression when he was in a rage) and called for the company commander.
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The “Maskharah” (whence our “mask”) corresponds with the fool or jester of mediæval Europe: amongst the Arnauts he is called
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He was preparing to leave his Seraglio in the night of the 1st of August, accompanied by about eight-hundred chosen horsemen, with his treasure loaded upon seventy mules, when his Arnauts, who were to have been left behind, fell upon the loaded mules, part of which had already nearly gained the town-gates, forced open the money chests and pillaged the whole.
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At Jeddah the Arnauts have amused themselves with firing at the English
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“Bring the sweet” (i.e. fire), “and take the full,” 19 (i.e., empty cup), euphuistically cry the long-moustached, fierce-browed Arnauts to the coffee-house keeper, who stands by them charmed by the rhyming repartee that flows so readily from their lips.
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The Nizam, or Regulars, had not been paid for seven months, and the Arnauts could scarcely sum up what was owing to them.
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With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “Arnauts!”
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Had he been armed, and in Al-Hijaz, we should have fought it out at once, for the Arnauts are
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