Druze

plural Druzes · alternative Druse

1. lifestyleA member of a secretive Ismaili Shiite community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.

   At Acre, 15,000 Druzes elected a six-member council comprising sheiks and mukhtars, their first official representative body since the establishment of Israel.

   1950 February 27, “Druzes in Israel Elect Council”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.

   2023 October 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023

alternative Druse

1. not comparableOf or relating to this religious community.

   Druze men shouted insults when she walked down the street.

   (Can we date this quote?), The Week, number 605, page 10

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   "The judges were very surprised when they found out I was Druze," she told Sonia Verma in The Times.

   (Can we date this quote?), The Week, number 605, page 10