Associations to the word «Mameluke»

Wiktionary

MAMELUKE, noun. A member of a military regime created and run originally by freed white slaves, which formed a ruling caste in Egypt from 1250 until 1812 and in Syria until 1516.
MAMELUKE, noun. (obsolete) A slave (especially white) in a Muslim country.
MAMELUKE, noun. Alternative letter-case form of mameluke

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats