Definitions
a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
Word origin
From Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ, “elder”). Sense 4 (“a romantic lover”) is from the 1921 film The Sheik.
Used in a sentence
“Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.”
“He then studied under a variety of scholars (shuyook) and institutes around the world in his quest for authentic knowledge.”
“When your last natural tooth goes, the time when you can kid yourself that you're a Hollywood sheik, is definitely at an end.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Arab leader”5 letters
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