Definition of "ghaffir" [ghaffir]

• A guard of a temple or tomb, especially in Egypt and Palestine. (noun)

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• "As they reached the outskirts of the village a sorry camel came with a sprawling gallop after them, and swaying and rolling above it was Yusef, the drunken ghaffir, his naboot of dom-wood across his knees."
• "Over the heads of the Gippy soldiers, with their pipestem legs, his look flashed eagerly, then a little painfully -- then suddenly stayed, for it rested on the green turban of Yusef, the drunken ghaffir."
• "He was in so ill a humour that he would willingly have met his old enemy, Yusef, the drunken ghaffir, and settled their long-standing dispute for ever."