Definitions
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- noun A member of a military
regime created and run originally by freed white slaves, which formed a ruling caste in Egypt from 1250 until 1812 and in Syria until 1516. - noun obsolete A
slave (especially white) in a Muslim country.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Shane laughs till some kind of mameluke or private secretary he carries with him has to hold him up.
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I have tried to picture him as a lean and haughty mameluke in loose, white robes, mounted on a dust-distributing camel, and, lance in hand, peering ferociously across the desert
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He was shot by a mameluke, Si Smyle, and fell in a thicket, wallowing in his blood.
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At last, seeing no means to obtain any information from him, a mameluke last week strangled him in his bed.
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But in his disappointment he yelled so loudly that Madame Bonaparte heard him; and as she had quite a fancy for her mameluke, I was sharply scolded.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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At last, seeing no means to obtain any information from him, a mameluke last week strangled him in his bed.
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Ibrahim, another mameluke, who was afterwards attached to the service of
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Those attached to his personal service were Hambard, head valet; Herbert, ordinary valet; and Roustan, mameluke of the First Consul.
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An officer gallops up with his sabre clicking; a mameluke gallops down with his charger kicking.
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But in his disappointment he yelled so loudly that Madame Bonaparte heard him; and as she had quite a fancy for her mameluke, I was sharply scolded.
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