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Definition of Bostangi
1. a Turkish palace guard [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bostangi
Literary usage of Bostangi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Traité sur les princes de la Valachie et de la Moldavie, sortis de by Markos Philippos Zallōnēs (1830)
"On les conduit attachés dans la Capitale, où on les applique à la torture (i), (i)
A l'imitation du four du bostangi-Bachi de Constantinople. ..."
2. Journal of a Voyage Up the Mediterranean: Principally Among the Islands of by Charles Swan, Marc-Phillipe Zallony (1826)
"They term at Constantinople, the oven of the bostangi-Bachi, a dungeon situated
in a place built within the enclosure of the seraglio. ..."
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