Lexicographical Neighbors of Rakee
Literary usage of Rakee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia and Mesopotamia: With by Horatio Southgate (1840)
"He seemed determined that we should profit little by his hospitality. Our fare
would have disgraced the meanest village. No article but rakee was offered us ..."
2. Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827 by Richard Robert Madden (1829)
"This morning he gave me the bottle to wash, and after having done so, to fill it
with rakee; it was my ink bottle; I drained out the ink, but I forgot to ..."
3. Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827 by Richard Robert Madden (1829)
"I remembered the Aga had a Malim, or writer, in his service, a Christian; I sought
him out, entreated him to tell me if he knew any thing about the rakee, ..."
4. Turkey and the Turks: Being the Present State of the Ottoman Empire by John Reid (1840)
"... nothing can be got but a pipe and a cup of coffee, but in the Greek cafes a
cup of wine, and in the Frank ones a glass of rum, rosolio, or rakee, ..."
5. Stray Leaves from the Diary of an Indian Officer: Containing an Account of by R. B. Cumberland (1865)
"... the full moon ; " rakee," is a sort of consecrated thread tied on the arms of
worshipers by the Brahmins. This festival is held on the full moon in ..."
6. The Metropolitan (1835)
"... and asking for wine and rakee, which, as forbidden by the law, I never taste,
I went out and purchased it for them. They did eat and drink till the dawn ..."
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