Crossword-Solution: CAIRENES 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The Cairenes, especially the feminine half (for reasons elsewhere given), have always been held exceedingly debauched.

Europeans being unable to pronounce the Ghayn (or gh like the modern Cairenes) would turn it into “Ma’ariyún.” They are mostly of the Maliki school (for which see Sale) and are famous as magicians and treasure-finders.

The Cairenes have, it is true, the Kamus of Fayruzabadi, but it has never been printed in Egypt; it is therefore rare, and when found, lost pages and clerical errors combined with the intrinsic difficulty of the style, exemplify the saying of Golius, that the most learned Orientalist must act the part of a diviner, before he can perform that of interpreter.

The chief item of the crowd, fair Cairenes, carried in their hands huge palm branches, intending to ornament therewith the tombs of parents and friends.

Their favourite flesh, as usual in this part of the world, is mutton; beef and goat are little prized.[FN#37]" The people of Suez are a finer and fairer race than the Cairenes.