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Targui, n.|tɑːˈgiː|
Also 9 Targee, (after Fr.) Touarghee, 20 Tarqui.
[a. Tuareg, masc. sing. of Tuareg Tuareg n.]
A man of the Tuareg people.
1822W. Oudney Jrnl. 25 June in Denham & Clapperton Narr. Trav. & Discoveries N. & Cent. Afr. (1826) p. li, We engaged an old Targee, who professed to know every part of our tract. 1848J. Richardson Trav. Gt. Desert Sahara II. xix. 77 The slaves were doing some work in the gardens which the Touarghee thought should have been given to him. 1923G. Casserly Algeria To-day xiii. 235 A Targui's mehara (riding camel) is usually white, is speedy and full of endurance. 1949P. Bowles Sheltering Sky v. 33 They..are thinking of the tall Targui who lives in the Sahara. 1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xx. 148 He was, I knew, a Tarqui, one of the Forgotten People of Allah, the Twarek. 1978D. Bagley Flyaway xiv. 107 I've been a Targui..longer than I was an American. |