What is "cypriot"

Usage examples of "cypriot".

Tony is a short, swarthy Cypriot who wears expensive suits and smells of garlic.

The westering sun glared down on them and made purple shadows on the sides of the Cypriot hills.

Miserably the juggler got out of the way, muttering to the others in Cypriot Greek.

I will give this letter into the hands of a Cypriot bound for Thessaly.

Ill-informed, they had gone off on a wild-goose chase through gossip from a Cypriot waiter at the restaurant he regularly used.

A patriotic young Cypriot was now nursing a badly bruised face and a gap in his teeth.

Larnaca Airport between Egyptian commandos and Cypriot national guardsmen, from which the hijackers of the grounded jet emerged unscathed while the airfield was littered with the burning wreckage of the Egyptian transport aircraft and dozens of dead and dying Cypriots and Egyptians.

That night, Cypriot military personnel reported a mysterious malfunctioning of their radar screens.

All I know is this: on that morning, somebody jammed the Cypriot radar, guaranteeing the success of the Turkish invasion.

Among those who did hear him were Spike and Abu, the Greek delegate, the Egyptian doctor, the Cypriot economists, and a table of Israeli regulars from the Peace Now organization.

Professor Panos Meliti was caught in an internal squeeze play between the constantly warring Cypriot factions, which culminated in the coup ousting Archbishop Makarios.

As it was very cold, the Cypriot sailors built a huge bonfire to keep warm.

A silly old Cypriot who denied himself all the glorious things that the gods gave us to enjoy, from laughter to good food.

By a doorway beside a Greek restaurant, his nameplate is sandwiched between that of a Cypriot travel agent and a fancy goods importer.

It was also a kind of testicle-protector, for there were some dirty fighters among the Maltese and Cypriot commis waiters.