Definitions
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- noun A generic name for a
desert -dweller ; a term generally applied toArab nomadic groups
Etymologies
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Examples
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The quicker they are riding camels again, sleeping in bedouin tents and gathering dung for a fire the better with me ….
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By 1948, the population had risen to 1,900,000, of whom 68% were Arabs, and 32% were Jews (UNSCOP report, including bedouin).
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I envisioned a cream muslin draped bedouin tent in the ladies' and a paneled nautical style library look for the men's complete with a vintage rowing boat hung from the ceiling.
Martyn Lawrence-Bullard Interview On Fashion And Interior Design The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Perhaps the relation between his tendency to camp out in foreign countries and Libyan bedouin traditions, is an identity meaningful to him that he wants to share, particularly in light of the many bedouins killed in the colonial 1930s and the post colonial environment he grew up in.
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A bedouin sheepherder can do this without the need for the scientific method or a testable hypothesis.
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I envisioned a cream muslin draped bedouin tent in the ladies' and a paneled nautical style library look for the men's complete with a vintage rowing boat hung from the ceiling.
Martyn Lawrence-Bullard Interview On Fashion And Interior Design The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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David Degner for The Wall Street Journal A bedouin watched the protests in Cairo from a house in the Sinai.
Egypt Rises Up 2011
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I recommend his A Shepherd's Journey: the story of Israel's first bedouin diplomat
Craig Newmark: A Shepherd's Journey: the story of Israel's first bedouin diplomat 2010
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But Israel and the JNF have a massive plan (Blueprint Negev) to make the Negev green with trees, and one of the planned forests is supposed to grow right where those el-Arakiv bedouin had the chutzpah to put their tents up.
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It doesn't matter that the state has moved the el-Arakiv bedouin from place to place over and over again.
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