derbend

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Turkish outpost at a remote location, typically a mountain pass, manned by guards or villagers who receive tax relief for maintaining the location and protecting it from outlaws.
    — Which reminds me to say, what I ought to have told you earlier, that the derbends which I so often mention, are stations of police guards, appointed to defend uninhabited parts of the public roads from robbers.

词形变化

derbends plural

词源

From Ottoman Turkish دربند (derbend).
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