Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Among the people of the Caucasus, a village or a village community; hence, a Tatar camp or encampment.
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Examples
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On the top is the aoul, which is divided into old and new Akhulgo, being together a circumference of something less than a couple of wersts.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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Where the aoul had stood was an empty space; his mother not there, nor his brothers, nor his house; one tree alone was left standing.
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Diane had told me that R-aoul threw major money at politicians sometimes.
Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000
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They let me take a fatt for the padrone-God. rest 0a aoul-and when I'm out of the slammer, I'm deported.
Greenmantle De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1985
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Mahomet-Mollah, who was a cadi in the aoul of Jarach, in the khanate of
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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When also a chieftain, desirous of raising a band of volunteers for some expedition against the enemy, rides from aoul to aoul summoning all good swords to follow, he transports along with him on the crupper of an attendant the aged minstrel, who at the gates sings the call to arms.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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Allah, the sentinels also being duly set, the warrior who is to fall in battle on the morrow lies down to sleep as peaceful as that of the babe he has left behind in the aoul, and soft as if the canopy overhead were not the star-spangled curtain of the skies.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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The mountains were filled with his murids, who went from aoul to aoul preaching the new doctrine of the second prophet of Allah, and summoning all the warriors to rally around the chieftain commissioned by heaven to deliver the land from the threatened bondage to Russia.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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Such expeditions were set on foot either by some chieftain who rode from aoul to aoul calling upon the brave to follow him; or by a summons sent abroad to the warriors of a certain district inviting them to assemble in the council ring at a given time and place for the purpose of agreeing upon an attack upon some fort, or a foray within the lines of the enemy.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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