578 ([return])
[ In text "Zarb al-Aklám.">[
579 ([return])
[ Vol. iii. 247-261. This violation of the Harem is very common in Egypt.]
580 ([return])
[ Arab. "Fadáwi," here again = a blackguard, see Suppl. vol. iv. 281.]
581 ([return])
[ The Irishman says, Sleep with both feet in one stocking.]
582 ([return])
[ Arab. or rather Egypt. "Bábúj," from "Bábúg," from the Pers. "Pay-púsh" = foot-clothing, vulg. "Pápúsh." To beat with shoe, slipper, or pipe-stick is most insulting; the idea, I believe, being that these articles are not made, like the rod and the whip, for corporal chastisement, and are therefore used by way of slight. We find the phrase "he slippered the merchant" in old diaries, e.g. Sir William Ridges, 1683, Hakluyts, mdccclxxvii.]