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algerine

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algerine [ˌældʒəˈriːn]
n
(Clothing & Fashion) a soft striped woollen cloth
[from French, from algérien Algerian: because the cloth was originally made in Algeria]

Algerine [ˌældʒəˈriːn]
adj
(Placename) of or relating to Algeria or its inhabitants
n
(Social Science / Peoples) a native or inhabitant of Algeria


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It must be some Algerine corsair brigantine that the watchtower signals to us.
towards the island of Formosa, as much afraid of being seen by a Dutch or English merchant ship as a Dutch or English merchant ship in the Mediterranean is of an Algerine man- of-war.
One was taken by the Algerines, and the other was lost on the Start, near Torbay, and all the people drowned except three; so that in either of those vessels I had been made miserable.
 
 
 
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