Definitions
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- noun A shereef.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
shereef . - noun Alternative spelling of
xeriff .
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Examples
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The Turks are wise in this; they religiously make a pilgrimage to Mecca; but they will not permit the xerif of Mecca to excommunicate the sultan.
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_ A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin, a bottle of Burgundy to the xerif of Mecca.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819
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They are not judged by imans, whom the xerif delegates; nor do they pay the first year’s revenue to the xerif.
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