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Definition of Fakeers
1. fakeer [n] - See also: fakeer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fakeers
Literary usage of Fakeers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Holy Land by William Hepworth Dixon (1865)
"But worse than the dread of these plagues of Jerusalem by night, is that of the
wandering fakeers who devote their lives to Allah and hang about the holy ..."
2. Asiatic Researches; Or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal by India) Asiatick Society (Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vernor and Hood (1807)
"AN ACCOUNT of Two fakeers, With their Portraits. By JONATHAN DUNCAN, Efq. T BEG
leave to lay before the Society the accompany- •^ ing Pictures of two ..."