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Definition of Selamliks
1. selamlik [n] - See also: selamlik
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selamliks
Literary usage of Selamliks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christian Missions: Their Agents, and Their Results by Thomas William M. Marshall (1864)
"The selamliks, bows, and benedictions,'' says,General Ferrier, who fortunately
traversed these regions on his way from Persia to the Punjaub, ..."
2. The Turk and His Lost Provinces: Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia by William Eleroy Curtis (1903)
"Formerly the selamliks were more public. There was a wooden pavilion, a sort of
grand stand for spectators, which was generally crowded by strangers ..."
3. The Turk and His Lost Provinces: Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia by William Eleroy Curtis (1903)
"Formerly the selamliks were more public. There was a wooden pavilion, a sort of
grand stand for spectators, which was generally crowded by strangers ..."
4. Speaking of the Turks by K. Ziya Mufti-zada (1922)
"... made by a retinue of men servants alone and in the old days only men were to
be seen in and around these two little houses, as around all "selamliks. ..."
5. The Mediterranean and Its Borderlands by Joel Cook (1910)
"The simplicity of Mohammed's selamliks is in sharp contrast with the pomp that
was shown by Abdul Hamid, who made the greatest display when be went to ..."
6. The Fall of Abd-Ul-Hamid by Francis McCullagh (1910)
"... that Abd-ul- Hamid ever held—and of the three Hamidian selamliks which I have
been privileged to witness, it was in some respects the most remarkable. ..."
7. The Mediterranean and Its Borderlands by Joel Cook (1910)
"... while the foreign embassies were fully represented in pavilions erected for
their accommodation. The simplicity of Mohammed's selamliks ..."
8. Regilding the Crescent by Frederick George Aflalo (1911)
"... so much so that, after one of the selamliks, he is said to have asked for news
of the outer world from one of the Ambassadors. ..."
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