Definition of "fellaheen" [fellaheen]

• See fellah.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The faces of the fellaheen are the faces of Thotmes and Seti."
• "After twelve months of negotiation, the fellaheen were at last bought out on fair terms, each proprietor receiving a stated price for his dwelling and a piece of land elsewhere, upon which to build another."
• "Egyptian "fellaheen" have submitted passively to a long series of conquerors, albeit this passivity has been occasionally broken by outbursts of volcanic fury presently dying away into passivity once more."