dervish
(en)
(noun) a member of a Muslim religious order noted for devotional exercises (as bodily movements leading to a trance) / (noun) one that whirls or dances with or as if with the abandonment of a dervish
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When the figures rose on the hills it was with a swirl of dirt so they looked like silver ghosts, dervishes.
uncertain
4 months, 3 weeks ago
It’s not any horsing around like you see in the movies, with twirling or flipping bottles—it’s more of a pure dervishness that has on occasion made a fool of me as I called for a drink that was already sitting up straight right under my face.
what???
unknown
8 months, 2 weeks ago