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Afghan

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Afghan, Afghani
1. a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Afghanistan
2. another name for Pashto (the language)


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Out in the garden stood a stately snow maiden, crowned with holly, bearing a basket of fruit and flowers in one hand, a great roll of music in the other, a perfect rainbow of an Afghan round her chilly shoulders, and a Christmas carol issuing from her lips on a pink paper streamer.
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He grunted rebelliously: "I can understand an Afghan stealing, because he's built that way.
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Mulcahy shivered when the former spoke of the knife as an intimate acquaintance, or the latter dwelt with loving particularity on the fate of those who, wounded and helpless, had been overlooked by the ambulances, and had fallen into the hands of the Afghan women-folk.
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