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Saracen
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synonyms: Mussulman, ~fakir ???
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Definition:an Arab or Muslim (the connotation is complex and depends upon the time period, but generally someone from the Middle East)
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the robust Normans gorged themselves of yore, fancying they saw on the table, in the light of the yellow torches, between tankards of hippocras and huge boars' heads, the heads of Saracens to be devoured.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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ACEPHALOUS, adj. In the surprising condition of the Crusader who absently pulled at his forelock some hours after a Saracen scimitar had, unconsciously to him, passed through his neck, as related by de Joinville.
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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