douar

plural douars · alternative dowar · alternative duar

1. A camp or village of tents in a North African country.

   he communicated by telephone instead of riding out by horseback, as in the good old days, to stay overnight in the various douars.

   1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 34

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   “A slave would be the better word,” she answered. “I was stolen in the night from my father’s douar by a band of marauders. They brought me here and sold me to the Arab who keeps this café.”

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 65

   ‘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.’

   1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 16