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Definition of Dahabeah
1. n. A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.
Definition of Dahabeah
1. Noun. A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, with large sails. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dahabeah
1. a large passenger boat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dahabeah
Literary usage of Dahabeah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt in 1898 by George Warrington Steevens (1898)
"ASSOUAN—AN AEAB BARD—LIFE ON A dahabeah—HOW THE NATIVES CELEBRATE A "FANTASIA."
February 12.—Assouan is the southern frontier of Egypt, the terminus of the ..."
2. Up the Nile, and Home Again: A Handbook for Travellers and a Travel-book for by Frederick William Fairholt (1862)
"The kind of boat used by travellers is termed a dahabeah ; the cut exhibits its
general form, which much resembles our old London civic barges ..."
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