alfatier

Updated: June 12, 2025

But for their discovery no Utopian would have thought of constructing these lines just yet. An unlovely deposit of brown dust has worked a revolution upon the minds of men, upon the face of the country. It has even enriched the French vocabulary. "Your friend, is he an alfatier?" "No, sir; he is a phosphatier."

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia