Janissaries is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for JANISSARIES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• JANISSARY, (Turkish) a soldier of the old Turkish footguards, also JANISARY, JANIZAR, JANIZARY
• a devoted follower or supporter.
• a member of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan's guard between the 14th and 19th centuries.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• often capitalize; a soldier of an elite corps of Turkish troops organized in the 14th century and abolished in 1826

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How to use JANISSARIES in a sentence

• Ali, on the other hand, was provided with the like number of janissaries.
• They were met by the janissaries with the same spirit as before.
• At last the letters of revocation arrived, the bassa was carried in chains to Constantinople, and in a short time the sultan that had deposed him was murdered by the Janissaries.
• We went in state, accompanied by the Consul, with two janissaries in front, bearing silver maces, and a dragoman behind.
• These superb horses and showy guards are the only relics of that barbaric pomp which characterized all State processions during the time of the Janissaries.
• The culminating cruelty was the tribute of Christian children from ten to twelve years of age who were sent to Constantinople to recruit the corps of janissaries.
• The janissaries had started as a militant, almost monastic body, condemned to celibacy, and recruited exclusively from the Christian tribute-children.
• In September 1826 he had rid it at last of the mischief at its centre by blowing up the janissaries in their barracks at Constantinople.
• Unable to lead all his armies in person, he elected, in the latter part of his reign, to lead none, and for the first time left the Janissaries to march without a sultan to war.
• The tumultuous insubordination of the Janissaries became an ever greater scandal.
• Petronievitch, the exiled leader of the Servian National party, introduced me to Hussein Pasha, the once terrible destroyer of the Janissaries.
• He was slain, and his army totally routed in the bloody battle of Warna, where ten thousand Christians fell before the janissaries of Amurath II.
• The twenty Janissaries had sworn they would never surrender.
• A few mean Janissaries displayed a flag in the streets, exclaiming that all true Mussulmen ought to follow them, and assist in reforming the government.
• But when the Turks took the Holy Land, they transplanted this balsam to Grand Cairo, and guarded its shrubs most jealously by Janissaries during the time the balsam was flowing.
• After them the aga of the janissaries, in a robe of purple velvet, lined with silver tissue, his horse led by two slaves richly dressed.
• Like janissaries, they derive a kind of freedom from the very condition of their servitude.
• If they are not cut off by a rebellion of their people, they may be strangled by the very janissaries kept for their security against all other rebellion.

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