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Syrian-Lebanese sect member
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druse
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Druse \Druse\, n. [Cf. G. druse bonny, crystallized piece of ore, Bohem. druza. Cf. Dross .] (Min.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Druse can refer to: Druze or Durzi, a Middle Eastern Ghulat Ismāʿīlī religious community, Druse (botany) , an aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants, Druse (geology) , an incrustation of small crystals on the surface of a rock or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
member of a Muslim sect centered in Lebanon, 1786, from Arabic duruz , plural of darazi , from name of the sect founder, Ismail ad- Darazi (11c.), literally "Ismail the Tailor."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context mineralogy English) An inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals. 2 (context botany English) An aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants. 3 (context ophthalmology English) A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular ...
Usage examples of druse.
Should the Christian Caimacam govern all the Christians, and the Druse Caimacam govern all the Druses of the Lebanon?
Or should the Christian Caimacam govern the Christian Mook-atas, as well as such Druses as lived mixed with the Christians in the Christian Mookatas, and the Druse Caimacam in the Druse country exercise the same rights?
He kissed the hand of Bishop Nicodemus, but then he sent his own nargileh to the Emir Ahmet Raslan, who was Caimacam of the Druses.
Francis El Kazin and Young Syria, were in general so disturbed that the Maronites were under the command of the Emir Raslan, the Druse Caimacam, while the Druses followed the Emir Hai-dar.
Fakredeen and his immediate friends rode up to the Caimacam of the Druses, and they offered each other mutual congratulations on the sport of the morning.
The principal feature of this administrative design was the institution of two governors of Lebanon, called Caimacams, one of whom was to be a Maronite and govern the Maronites, and the other a Druse and govern his fellow-countrymen.
Gate were little enclaves of Druses, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Confucianists, Taoists, Shintoists, Hindus, Pantheists, Gnostics, Orphics, Metempsychosans, Dualists, Unitarians.
He said that there had been afight that day between some of his men and some Druse, and that some Druse were killed trying to attack a Phalangist position in the Shouf, and the dead were left in the battlefield.
He said the Druse took their dead away and then carved them up to make it look like the Maronites did it and then the Druse brought the chopped-up bodies to Aley to stir up their own people.
Gate were little enclaves of Druses, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Confucianists, Taoists, Shintoists, Hindus, Pantheists, Gnostics, Orphics, Metempsychosans, Dualists, Unitarians.
The Abunekeds were the Druse lords of the town of Deir el Kamar, where the majority of the inhabitants were Christian.
The Lebanese government of President Amin Gemayel splinters after Shiite Muslims and Druse in West Beirut launch a revolt against the Lebanese army.
Arafat and his men, most of whom were Muslims, were welcomed by the Lebanese Muslims and Druse, who identified with their cause and, more important, thought they could use the PLO guerrillas to bring pressure on the Maronite Christians to share more power.
Maronites, even Uniats, even Moslems and Druses had to admit that something had happened.
Maronites, Druses, Baptists, Buddhists, Tritheists, American Catholic Eclectics.