dahabeeyahdahabiahn.
/dɑːhəˈbiːjə/ A large sailing-boat, used by travellers on the Nile.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > large, used on rivers
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1846 I. F. Romer Pilgrimage I. 109 The Dahabieh and her crew were hired at a daily expense.
1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. 366 Baker led us to his ‘diabeah’, or Nile pleasure-boat.
1876 Western Morning News (Plymouth) 2 Feb. 3/3 Three young English ladies..were sailing up the river in a dahabeah.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile Pref. 12 The Dahabeeyah hired by the European traveller, reproduces in all essential features the painted galleys represented in the tombs of the kings.
1890 A. H. Sayce in Trans. Lancs. & Cheshire Antiquarian Soc. 7 4 Coming down the Nile in a dahabiah.
1905 E. F. Benson Image in Sand i A couple of dayabeahs moored to the bank were a blaze of Syrian awnings.
1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xvi. 244 The winding river, glowing with opal fire, and the dahabiehs, that was the Egypt of his dreams.
1936 E. M. Forster Abinger Harvest iv. 249 The Sahara where horsemen..are silently riding towards the Nile to intercept the dahabiyeh.
1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After 24 The party travelled in some style in a dahabeyah.
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Jan. 28/2 As his dahabia navigates the last of the cataracts.
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