How To Use Yataghan In A Sentence

Surely such an incongruous question was never put in an Arab town in the heart of Africa by a sheikh dressed in bernouse and turban, with a jewel-hilted yataghan at his side, sitting cross-legged on a cushion. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
Short Turkish Swords - yataghans or curved daggers, were most frequently used for hand-to-hand combat where they usually were decisive for the result of combat, since the use of fire-arms had still been slow and unpractical.
Turkish eighteenth-century yataghans are fine examples of artistic decoration: their wavy blades have near the hilt embossed plates with protruding coral insets.
The author presents this famous weapon of Osman Turks and the collection of yataghans in the State Museum of Oriental Art.
Albanian, in crimson and gold embroidered jacket, and snowy camise, started forward, and holding out his silver-sheathed yataghan commanded the postilions to stop. Coningsby

The yataghan has one-edged curved blade with ornamentation and Arabian lettering.
These flamboyant Turkish uniformed troops also had muskets with bayonets of this form, and a number of yataghan blade bayonets appeared for both U.S. and Confederate forces.
The wolf and its friend got to the appointed place. But when they saw the enemy coming, they thought it had brought a yataghan because the turn-up tail of the cat looked like a yataghan .
Next to the table, on a chair covered in red velvet, I see a helmet, a yataghan [a curved Turkish saber], a large pistol with an ivory-inlaid grip.
Inscription on the yataghan blade: Made by Salih, owned by Salih-agha, 1672 (according to the Muslim calendar)
His bernouse flew aside and from the open breast the handle of a yataghan peeped; no cord or belt held it. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
In their splendid robes and richly ornamented yataghans, the gentlemen of the party lent unusual picturesqueness to the commonplace surroundings of a railway platform.
The handle of yataghan is made of wood or deer horn.