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Houri

noun

(pl. houris)

A voluptuously beautiful young woman. Synonym: nymph.

(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

... locks so luxuriantly knotted, plaited, twisted, as if she did not know how to dispose of all their abundance, with her vermilion lips, damask cheek, and roguish laughing eye. And Caroline de Blemont! Ah, there is beauty! beauty in perfection. What a cloud of sable curls about the face of a houri! What fascinating lips! What glorious black eyes! Your Byron would have worshipped her, and you—you cold, frigid islander!—you played the austere, the insensible in the presence of ...

— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell

... taster rise, Of Dervish or of Almeh dances! Of Eblis, or of Paradise, Set all aglow with Houri glances! ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... you are free for a moment; because you are not treated quite as a pariah because that black-eyed houri down at the shanty smiles at you? You'll sicken of this presently. I tell you you must come back to your healthy hatred. The spirit of revolt is in your blood; the contempt is with you. I ...

— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson

... dreamed of paradise. I awake and find a houri with her hand in mine! Il-hamd'ul-illah!* I Enter, beloved! Why waste the moonlight hours?" [* Thanks ...

— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy

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