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

When Henry M. Stanley first visited Jerusalem he insisted that the dragoman in charge of his party should keep all guides and guide-books out of his sight.

From Every Man His Own University by Conwell, Russell H.

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

Doubtless his dragoman had told him something of the kind.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)