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ghawazee, n. pl.|gəˈwɑːziː|
Also ghawâzi, ghowazee.
[ad. Arab. ġawāzī, pl. of ghazeeyeh.]
Egyptian dancing-girls.
1799W. G. Browne Trav. Afr. vi. 86 The last are the female dancers or ghawasié. 1836E. W. Lane Mod. Egypt I. 240 The Ghawa´zee (or public dancing-girls). Ibid. II. 95 The Ghawa´zee perform, unveiled, in the public streets, even to amuse the rabble. 1845R. Ford Hand-bk. Trav. Spain i. 188 The ghowazee of the Egyptians. 1924‘S. Rohmer’ Grey Face iv, Her hair, which was dressed in the fashion of the dancing girls who pose for ever upon the Egyptian monuments, and which is preserved in life to this day by the ghawâzi of Keneh. 1964W. G. Raffe Dict. of Dance 198/1 Ghawazee or Ghazeeyeh (Egypt, Modern Arabian), the professional public dancing girls. |