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Definition of Kaids
1. kaid [n] - See also: kaid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kaids
Literary usage of Kaids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social, and Natural, of by John Reynell Morell (1854)
"... and made way for kaids and kadis; whilst bishops have given up their chairs,
once shrines of Apollo or Venus, to imams and muftis. ..."
2. Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco: A Narrative of Exploration by Joseph Thomson (1889)
"... and the gathering of all the kaids of Southern Morocco to do homage to their
liege lord the Sultan, and fill his treasures and the coffers of his ..."
3. Carthage and Tunis, past and present: Past and Present: in Two Parts by Amos Perry (1869)
"Once the kaids took their districts on shares, or paid the government a certain
sum for ... Besides the sum agreed on, the kaids had to send to the Bey, ..."
4. The Literary Remains of ... C.F.T.D. by Charles F. Tyrwhitt Drake (1877)
"In this way the kaids often get very rich; but certainly when things are not
given them ... The Arabs are squeezed by the sheikhs, the sheikhs by the kaids, ..."
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