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Webster 1913 Edition
Douar
Dou′ar
,Noun.
[F., fr. Ar.
d[GREEK]ār
.] A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets.
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douar (plural douars)
- A camp or village of tents in an Arabic country.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 34:
- he communicated by telephone instead of riding out by horseback, as in the good old days, to stay overnight in the various douars.
- 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus 1993, p. 16:
- ‘We burn their douars, we rape their women, we confiscate their crops, we carry out the necessary exemplary executions and we round up those who are left into what I can only call concentrations camps.’
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 34: