naboots

Updated: May 7, 2025

Behind them, at a distance, came villagers, a dozen ghaffirs armed with naboots of dom-wood, and a brace of well-mounted, badly-dressed policemen, with seats like a monkey on a stick.

Gilbert Parker - Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 1

Then he had broken a cake of dourha bread on the roof for the pigeons above him, and had come down grinning to the street, where a hesitating mounted policeman fumbled with his weapon, and four ghaffirs waited for him with their naboots.

Gilbert Parker - Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete