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Bedouins

[Bed-wins]. The homeless street poor are so called. Thus the Times calls the ragged, houseless boys “the Bedouins of London” The Bedouins are the nomadic tribes of Arabia (Arabic, bedawin, a dweller in a desert; badw, a desert). (See Street Arabs.)

“These Bedouins of the prairie invariably carry their lodges with them.” —A. D. Richardson: Beyond the Mississippi, chap. v.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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