Bedoueen

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  • Bedouin: a nomadic Arab; the word is a generic term for a desert-dweller → Mohammed was cared for by a Bedouin woman in his childhood
  • between
  • Buridan’s Ass: a person of indecision, after the ass in a 14th Century sophism (erroneously attributed to Jean Buridan) in which an ass dies of starvation because it cannot choose between two equidistant and equally desirable stacks of hay → Cropherb the crunchbracken
  • bed
  • bed down: to settle down, especially in a makeshift bed, for sleep