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1. baklava, n. View full entry 1650
...A dessert made from thin pieces of flaky pastry, honey, and nuts, usually cut into lozenge-shaped pieces....
2. † baˈshalic(k, n. View full entry 1682
...Earlier form of pashalik, the district under the jurisdiction of a pasha....
3. † beg, n.1 View full entry 1686
...A bey. Now only used as part of Eastern names. beg beg = beglerbeg...
4. bento, n. View full entry 1616
...A Japanese or Japanese-style packed lunch traditionally consisting of rice, vegetables, and Japanese specialities such as sashimi and teriyaki, and served in a lacquered or decorated wooden box. Freq. attrib.,...
5. bezesteen, n. View full entry 1656
...An exchange, bazaar, or market-place in the East....
6. bostangi, n. View full entry 1686
...A Turkish guard of the palace....
7. boza | bosa, n. View full entry 1656
...A popular acidulated drink in Egypt, etc., made by fermenting an infusion of millet seed, with the addition of certain astringent substances; also an inebriating preparation of darnel-meal, hemp-seed and water....
8. cadilesker, n. View full entry 1686
...A chief judge in the Turkish empire....
9. cha | chah, n. View full entry 1616
...Properly, the name of tea in the Mandarin dialect of Chinese, which was occasionally used in English at the first introduction of the beverage. (Some subsequently applied it as a...
10. chen shu, n. View full entry 1655
...= k'ai shu...
11. chop-stick, n.2 View full entry 1699
...pl. The two small sticks or slips of bone, wood, ivory, or the like, held between the thumb and fingers of one hand by the Chinese in place of a fork...
12. dairi, n. View full entry 1662
...In Japan, properly the palace or court of the Mikado: also a respectful mode of speaking of the mikado or emperor....
13. dey, n.2 View full entry 1656
...The titular appellation of the commanding officer of the Janissaries of Algiers, who, after having for some time shared the supreme power with the pasha or Turkish civil governor, in 1710...
14. dotchin, n. View full entry 1696
...The name in the south of China for the small hand-steelyard there used....
15. effendi, n. View full entry 1614
...A Turkish title of respect, chiefly applied to government officials and to members of the learned professions....
16. elatcha, n. View full entry c1613
...A silk fabric from Turkestan: ‘a silk cloth 5 yards long, which has a sort of wavy line pattern running in the length on one side’ (Baden-Powell, in Yule at Alleja...
17. furo, n. View full entry 1615
...In Japan: (originally) a steam bath or bathhouse; (in later use) = ofuro...
18. ginseng, n. View full entry 1654
...A plant of either of two species of the genus Aralia or Panax, found in Northern China and Nepaul, also in Canada and the eastern United States....
19. ichoglan, n. View full entry 1677
...A page in waiting in the palace of the Sultan....
20. imaret, n. View full entry 1613
...A hospice for the accommodation of pilgrims and travellers in Turkey....