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BOSTANGIS

Volume 4 · 94 words · 1815 Edition

in the Turkish affairs, persons employed in the garden of the seraglio, out of whose number are collected those that are to row in the Grand Signior's brigantines, when he has a mind to divert himself with fishing, or to take the air upon the canal. They who row upon the left hand are only capable of mean employments in the gardens; but they who row on the right hand may be promoted to the charge of bostangi-bachi, who has the general intendency of all the grand signior's gardens, and commands above 10,000 bostangis.