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2 24 vous donner la chair de poule: 'make your flesh creep' With the French chair de poule 'hen flesh' cf. Engl. "goose flesh". 236 yataganerie. the yatagan, 'yataghan, is the saber of the Turks and the Arabs, from this word Daudet coined yataganerie on the analogy of épicerie, papeterie, etc, transl. 'paraphernalia of war'. 228 bonhomme a noun used adjectively, transl. 'kindly'.
The Arab conquest about 700 A.D. made Arabic the dominant language of all North Africa to this day an important fact to remember and introduced the Arabs as a permanent population along the north edge of the Sahara.
It is also the seat of a bishop. 69 25 vous ... casquettes: transl. 'all of you gentlemen, the caphunters. 69 27 la vôtre: i.e. votre romance, cf. pages 6-7. 69 30 Bédouins: nomadic Arabs in northern Africa and Arabia. 69 32 tout cela: cf. note to 55 28. 69 33 auquel ... rien: cf. je ne comprends rien
The Negroland of the Arabs, or an Inquiry into the early history and geography of central Africa.-La Nigritie des Arabes, ou Recherches sur l'Histoire et la Géographie primitives de l'Afrique centrale; par WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOLEY. 8 sch. 6 den., avec une carte.
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