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A ciceronë; a guide or interpreter to foreigners. (Arabic targuman, an interpreter; whence targum.)
“My dragoman had me completely in his power, and I resolved to become independent of all interpreters.”—Baker: Albert Nyanza, chap. i. p. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.