Crossword clues for kavass
kavass
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kavass \Ka*vass"\, n.; pl. Kavasses[Turk. k[=a]vv[=a]s] An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.
Wiktionary
n. A Turkish armed policeman or courier
Wikipedia
Kavass is a Turkish name for an armed police-officer, also for a courier such as it is usual to engage when travelling in Turkey.
The name is used, inter alia, for the guards that traditionally preserve public order at the important worship spots of the Holy Land (formerly under Ottoman Turkey jurisdiction), such as the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and the Nativity Church in Bethlehem.
Category:Turkish words and phrases Category:Law enforcement in Turkey
Usage examples of "kavass".
IV When he woke again it was to find at his bedside a kavass from Imshi Pasha at Cairo.
For Fatima thought of the far-off time when she loved Hassan the potter, who had been dragged from his wheel by a kavass of conscription and lost among the sands of the Libyan desert.
Kavass was potent, aye, but the little he'd had at the evening meal should not have left him as crapulent as this.
Though he still could not stomach the half-raw beef the Khamorth used for iron rations, he munched on wheatcakes and curded cheese, washed them down with kavass.