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(religion) A secretive religious community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. examples
plural Druze or Druzes
A member of this community. quotations examples
At Acre, 15,000 Druzes elected a six-member council comprising sheiks and mukhtars, their first official representative body since the establishment of Israel.
1950 February 27, “Druzes in Israel Elect Council”, in The New York Times
This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.
2023 October 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels”, in The New York Times
not comparable
Of, or relating to this religious community. quotations examples
"The judges were very surprised when they found out I was Druze," she told Sonia Verma in The Times.
, The Week, number 605, page 10
Druze men shouted insults when she walked down the street.