Brewer's: Begtashi

A religious order in the Ottoman Empire, which had its origin in the fourteenth century. The word is derived from Hadji Begtash, a dervish, its founder.

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