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The word today is 'ZOUAVE': dictionary.com
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ZOUAVE
ReplyDeletezouave
1848,
from Fr.,
from Arabic Zwawa,
from Berber Igawawaen,
name of a Kabyle tribe in Algeria,
from which the Fr. light infantry troops of that name were originally recruited in 1831.
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Today's word is ZOUAVE http://bit.ly/bjLGiJ No points/votes. Clean, creative, courteous tweets. Have fun! #lqw
Mustafa the reluctant zouave
ReplyDeleteThought he was ever so suave
He wore a red sash
And a great waxed moustache
The sarge yelled "YOU HAVING A LAUGH?"
There was a zouave from Italy
ReplyDeletewho would not eat his spaghetti.
He was sent to Russia
to taste kulebiaka,
and wished he was still in Asti.
he's suave
ReplyDeleteand a zouave
and i wuv him.
everytime,
he's on stream
i preen like a queen
content to hug him
even just in my dream
19ish said...
ReplyDeleteThe Zouave were so debonair
they would dress up for battle with flair
pantaloons colored red
with a fez on their heads
these French elite troops from Algier
osmarjardim wrote:
ReplyDeleteZou-Ave Caesar morituri te salutant
(literamente:
Salve César, os que estão a ponto de morrer saúdam você) #lqw
I fell in love in Algeria
ReplyDeleteand contracted malaria.
A big fat mosquitoe
disguised as an arrow.
No zouave in the sick area.
There once was an epicure Zouave
ReplyDeleteWho cunningly blanched a kohlrabi:
Said he "do not worry!
I can always make curry
If you find puree ridiculously snobby."
Fouad goes to Limerick
ReplyDeleteHis jacket is blue, his fez is red
His moustaches are sharp and he's good in bed
The girls all decree
And the boys all agree
He's the suavest Zouave on the Med.
See also:
Fouad the Suave Zouav
http://www.thesupercargo.com/2010/02/21/fouad-the-suave-zouave/
In the narrowest Tangiers souk
ReplyDeleteSits an old man reading a book
At his side is a lute
A loaf and some fruit -
Actually, a guava which was given him by a zouave who from a barrow in the market he took
a young zouave came home from battle upset
ReplyDeletehe said his needs were unmet
he wanted some lady to love
instead he was handed a dove
and told to forget the brunette.