Definition of "vakeel" []

• A native attorney or agent. (noun)
• An ambassador. (noun)

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• "Did he ever state it to the Rajah, or did he call his vakeel before the Council to answer the charge?"
• "I therefore called my vakeel, and threatened him with the gravest punishment on my return to Khartoum."
• "I sensed there was something up as soon as I presented myself in the durbar room; she was perfectly pleasant, vivacious even, as she told me about some new hunting-cheetah she'd been given, but her vakeel and chief minister weren't meeting her eye, and her foot was tap-tapping under the edge of her gold sari; ah, thinks I, someone's been getting the sharp side of missy's tongue."