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Saracens

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Saracens (sâr`əsənz), term commonly used by medieval Europeans to designate the Arabs and, by extension, the Muslims in general, whether they were Arabs, Moors, or Seljuk Turks.
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This reverend brother has been all his life engaged in fighting among the Saracens for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre; he is of the order of Knights Templars, whom you may have heard of; he is half a monk, half a soldier.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
The Saracens captured and pillaged Genoa nine hundred years ago, but during the following century Genoa and Pisa entered into an offensive and defensive alliance and besieged the Saracen colonies in Sardinia and the Balearic Isles with an obstinacy that maintained its pristine vigor and held to its purpose for forty long years.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
within me, to be great admiral of France - and then to go and get killed at Gigelli, among all those Turks, Saracens, and Moors.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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