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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ghawazee

Egyptian dancing-girls, 1799, from Arabic gawazi, plural of gaziya.

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ghawazee

n. A type of dancer popular in Egypt in the 19th century, who danced in a style similar to the belly dance.

Usage examples of "ghawazee".

Now there was in Beni Hassan a ghdzeeyeh, a dancing-woman of the Ghawazee tribe, of whom, in the phrase of the moralists, the less said the better.

He was an authority on the tribe of the Ghawazee, proving, to their satisfaction and his own, their descent from the household of Haroon al Rashid.