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Definition of Sheika
1. Noun. The wife of a sheik.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheika
Literary usage of Sheika
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Meanwhile a revolt bad broken out in the southern provinces, headed by sheika
Mohammed Ahmed oí' ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... in the neighborhood of Gondar and sheika, where they pursue agriculture and
trade. They are more industrious than the Christians, but also more ignorant ..."