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  • noun Alternative form of hegira.

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Examples

  • Before they were even out of the terminal, Jane rounded on her, accusing Betty of being a spy from the Calcutta office “on a boondoggling hejira to the Land of the Lotus Eaters.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Before they were even out of the terminal, Jane rounded on her, accusing Betty of being a spy from the Calcutta office “on a boondoggling hejira to the Land of the Lotus Eaters.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Back in the day, and much earlier in this terrible hejira, some class-betraying stool-pigeon would have whispered a word in the ear of the local bobby.

    Public Officials Did Not Kill “Baby P” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • At the time I was on a spiritual/intellectual hejira, obsessively trying to understand exactly what I believed, my head still reeling from my basic philosophy class a few years earlier.

    100 Novels: The Unbearable Lightness of Being « Exile on Ninth Street 2009

  • Oddly, with her aimless hejira over, she has attained permanent star status in the pictorial dynasty of doomed blond sex symbols.

    Women 2008

  • Current Music: crown me king- "seid hejira"4 gunslingers | crown me king

    mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2003

  • More marijuana; more fog; more guilt: and the shifting hejira into the longest lost night of all—that was where she was going.

    Days Between Stations Steve Erickson 1985

  • More marijuana; more fog; more guilt: and the shifting hejira into the longest lost night of all—that was where she was going.

    Days Between Stations Steve Erickson 1985

  • In preaching a hejira to the country, I do not forget the interests of the children.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • Islamic observances that change in accordance with the lunar-based hejira calendar

    The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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