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Definition of Kurbash
1. to flog with a leather whip [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kurbash
Literary usage of Kurbash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"The kurbash was the thong of hippopotamus-hide with which all offenders and non-
offenders were punished by being flogged on the soles of their feet. ..."
2. In the Land of the Pharaohs: A Short History of Egypt from the Fall of by Duse Mohamed (1911)
"Now as to the kurbash. ... in 1883, when through his instrumentality the kurbash
had been abolished by ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The use of the kurbash for such purposes, once common in Egypt, has been abolished
by the British authorities. KURDISTAN, in its wider sense, the " country ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1884)
"Heaven knows I am no advocate of the kurbash. I am no believer in the theory that
the fellaheen can only be ruled by the bastinado. ..."
5. Egypt and the Egyptian Question by Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1883)
"State might be given, I believe, by every Mudir in the country: " If you ask me
officially," he said, " whether the use of the kurbash is abandoned, ..."
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