Zouaves, the name given to a body of light infantry in the French army wearing the Arab dress, a costume copied from that of Kabyles, in North Africa, and adopted since the French conquest of Algiers; some regiments of them consist of French soldiers, some of Algerines, though originally the two were incorporated into one body.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Zosimus * Zoutspansberg