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The Baggara are a Muslim Bedouin people of the Nile Basin.
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The Terabin are a Bedouin tribe of the Sinai wilderness, forming the most numerous of the pastoral tribes occupying the Negeb uplands from Suez to Beersheba and Gazza.
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A burnoose, bournous or burnous is a large kind of mantle in use amongst the Bedouin Arabs and the Berbers of Northern Africa. It is commonly made from white wool, and has a hood for covering the head in the event of rain.
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A keffiyeh is a Bedouin Arab's headdress comprising a large square of cloth of wool, cotton or linen, held in place by an agal.
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HMS Bedouin was a British Tribal Class destroyer of 1870 tons displacement launched in 1937 and sunk during the Second World War. HMS Bedouin was powered by three Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 36.5 knots and carried a crew of 190. She was armed with eight 4.7 inch dual-purpose guns; seven smaller guns and four 21-inch torpedo tubes.
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