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Houri

noun
(pl. houris)
1.
A voluptuously beautiful young woman.  Synonym: nymph.
2.
(Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise.





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"Houri" Quotes from Famous Books



... "True, coronel. I have seen no one here like Dona Chonita. There is a delicious uniformity about the Californian women: so reserved, shrinking yet dignified, ever on their guard. Dona Chonita changed so swiftly from the typical woman of her race to an houri, almost a bacchante,—only an extraordinary refinement of nature kept her this side of the line,—that an American would be ...
— The Doomswoman - An Historical Romance of Old California • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton


Words linked to "Houri" :   Muhammadanism, mythical being, woman, nymph, Islamism, Muslimism, Islam, adult female, Mohammedanism


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