Meanings of mamelukes in English

The Bey and his ministers and mamelukes amused themselves with shooting at a mark.

The captured mansion of Murad Bey, leader of the mamelukes.

The leading mamelukes chose one of themselves, the emir Eibek, to be head of the administration.

I've ridden the horses of the mamelukes.

About thirty children dressed as mamelukes seemed to guard this monument, which recalled to the Emperor glorious memories.

No husky black slaves and mamelukes!

Outside the square, the shrieking mamelukes recklessly charge, and are slaughtered by the disciplined and accurate wall of French muskets.

Three of the mamelukes and ourselves went to Wedyen, a town and date-wood about eight miles from Toser, to the left.

The military body created by Saladin, called mamelukes ("slaves;" literally "the possessed"), obtained ascendency in the manner here related by Muir.

The mamelukes, the slave soldiers of Egypt, who had fought most valiantly against him, were wakened to a realization of their own power.

Handsome gifts, such as horses with saddles of gem-encrusted gold; mamelukes, or white slaves; beautiful handmaids, high-breasted virgins, and splendid stuffs and costly .

Hand to hand encounters now became general; monkeys assailed lions; mamelukes returned the fire of gipsies; a grand hurly-burly arose from every point in sight.

The Bey received the venerable old gentleman under an immense tent in the shape of an umbrella, surrounded with his mamelukes and officers of state.

But we are all his mamelukes and the boughten of his money, and his father El Aziz hath despatched us to make enquiry of him.

The Mamelukes of the Air had turned the tables upon the Sultan.

The fall of the Crusader castles to the Mamelukes needs some explanation.