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Definition of Kurbashes
1. kurbash [v] - See also: kurbash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kurbashes
Literary usage of Kurbashes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Elisée Reclus (1892)
"A day is fixed for the young men who dispute for the possession of the girl to
assemble before the old men and the women armed with kurbashes, and those who ..."
2. Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by Claude Reignier Conder (1878)
"Habib returned with four Kurdish soldiers, armed to the teeth, and having kurbashes,
or whips of hippopotamus-hide, slung to their wrists. ..."
3. The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal by Isabel Burton (1876)
"... them with cow-hide kurbashes, but they did not seem to feel the stripes, and
men looking like the " Forts de la Halle," in white light garments, ..."
4. Court Life in Egypt by Alfred Joshua Butler (1887)
"... most savagely beaten, and that one of them had already died from his injuries;
he also discovered the place where the kurbashes used were hidden away. ..."
5. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"... Rensi, son of Maru, on the esplanade which is before the gate, he dispatched
two men of his clan to him with kurbashes, and they beat all his limbs. ..."
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