Fakir

a Mohammedan religious mendicant. Among Anglo-Indians, and even among Hindus, the word is often used for a native mendicant of any faith; but specifically it is one of the Mohammedan religion; they are regarded by the et multitude as men of great sanctity. In the United States, fakir is a colloquialism for perambulating street merchants, Falaise, a town of France, deof Calvados, 15 miles from aen. The castle, which stands on a precipice, and in which William the Conqueror was born in 1024, is in tuins, with the exception of a tower.