dragoman

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Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some men did manage to get into the boats, notably Henry Sleeper Harper, of the publishing family, who took along an Egyptian dragoman and his Pekingese named Sun Yatsen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Accordingly I turned the tourist over to my dragoman with orders to show him everything and give him all the information he wanted.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary

Gutschmid has supported the Herodotean inscription on the strength of papyri from the times of Ramses Miamen in Philologus, 10, 644; the "talents" in any case must be left for the dragoman.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

With my dragoman, Mr. Gargiulo, I then proceeded with the Chief Introducer of Ambassadors into the presence of the Sultan while the rest of my staff were detained in an anteroom.

From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.