Sar|a|cen

Sar|a|cen
Sar|a|cen «SAR uh suhn», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. an Arab.
2. a Muslim at the time of the Crusades.
3. a member of the nomadic peoples of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the later Greeks and of the Roman Empire.
–adj.
of or having to do with the Saracens.
╂[partly Old English Saracene, plural < Late Latin Saracēnī, partly < Old French sarrazin, learned borrowing from Late Latin < Greek Sarakēnós]

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