Dragʹoman (plural, Dragomans).

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.

Doyleys
Dozen
D. P. or Dom. Proc
Drac
Drachenfels (Dragon-rocks)
Draconian Code
Draft
Draft on Aldgate (A)
Drag in, Neck and Crop
Draggle-tail
Dragoman (plural, Dragomans)
Dragon
Dragon Slayers
Dragon of Wantley (i.e. Warncliff, in Yorkshire)
Dragon’s Hill (Berkshire)
Dragon’s Teeth
Dragonades
Dragoons
Drake
Drama
Drama of Exile (A)