Definition of "shaykh" []

• Same as sheik. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "We had thirty-six different races and creeds and tongues: grey-bearded Moslems, fierce-looking Druzes, a rough Kurdish chief, a Bedawin shaykh, a few sleek Jewish usurers, every one of the fourteen castes of Christians, the Protestant missionaries, and all the"
• "Lord Beaconsfield; and at one of her parties, when the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh were present, by request of the hostess Burton dressed as a Bedawin shaykh, and Isabel as a Moslem woman of Damascus."
• "After several months, when the shaykh yet again dismissed her brushing as inadequate, the woman exploded in fury."