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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Cairo (the capital of Egypt).

Etymologies

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Cairo +‎ -ene

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Examples

  • The story is exceedingly Egyptian and the style abounds in Cairene vulgarisms, especially in the Bresl.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Tabak,” in Cairene slang, is an officer who arrests by order of the Kazi and means “Father of whipping” (= tabaka, a low word for beating, thrashing, whopping) because he does his duty with all possible violence in terrorem.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • "I'm so happy," said Gamal Askari, a 43-year-old Cairene without a job, as he stood at the base of a monumental statue of Saad Zaghloul, hero of Egypt's struggle for independence against British colonialism.

    Scott MacLeod: My Love, Egypt Scott MacLeod 2011

  • Some well-analyzed celebrations of the role social media in galvanizing and fulminating the Cairene events of Egypt's Revolution have been tempered by others like Malcolm Gladwell and Frank Rich, pointing out that such tactics no matter their un-censorial rapidity should never be mistaken for the more profound strategic imperatives born of history and the gradual forces of person-to-person interplay.

    Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011

  • "I'm so happy," said Gamal Askari, a 43-year-old Cairene without a job, as he stood at the base of a monumental statue of Saad Zaghloul, hero of Egypt's struggle for independence against British colonialism.

    Scott MacLeod: My Love, Egypt Scott MacLeod 2011

  • "I'm so happy," said Gamal Askari, a 43-year-old Cairene without a job, as he stood at the base of a monumental statue of Saad Zaghloul, hero of Egypt's struggle for independence against British colonialism.

    Scott MacLeod: My Love, Egypt Scott MacLeod 2011

  • Some well-analyzed celebrations of the role social media in galvanizing and fulminating the Cairene events of Egypt's Revolution have been tempered by others like Malcolm Gladwell and Frank Rich, pointing out that such tactics no matter their un-censorial rapidity should never be mistaken for the more profound strategic imperatives born of history and the gradual forces of person-to-person interplay.

    Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011

  • Some well-analyzed celebrations of the role social media in galvanizing and fulminating the Cairene events of Egypt's Revolution have been tempered by others like Malcolm Gladwell and Frank Rich, pointing out that such tactics no matter their un-censorial rapidity should never be mistaken for the more profound strategic imperatives born of history and the gradual forces of person-to-person interplay.

    Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011

  • Clubs from across the country have always felt that Egypt's premier club al-Ahly and it's Cairene counterpart Zamalek have been favoured for being the capital clubs.

    Port Said football disaster exposes political vacuum left by revolution 2012

  • Some well-analyzed celebrations of the role social media in galvanizing and fulminating the Cairene events of Egypt's Revolution have been tempered by others like Malcolm Gladwell and Frank Rich, pointing out that such tactics no matter their un-censorial rapidity should never be mistaken for the more profound strategic imperatives born of history and the gradual forces of person-to-person interplay.

    Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change Paul Gunther 2011

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