houri
one of the beautiful virgins provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims.
Origin of houri
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How to use houri in a sentence
Does Allah rain houris in youths' clothes upon the waste land betwixt Sermada and Harenc?
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisWhen satiated with earthly felicity, may you be received in paradise by seventy dark-eyed houris—'
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles ReadeHe was dreaming, perchance, of the rosy bowers and the dark-eyed houris of Paradise.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge HemyngI never saw a man in such a state as Fitzroy Timmins in the presence of those ravishing houris.
A Little Dinner at Timmins's | William Makepeace ThackerayOr the believer, dying in battle for the creed of the Faithful, might expect to wake up in a celestial harem peopled with Houris.
British Dictionary definitions for houri
/ (ˈhʊərɪ) /
(in Muslim belief) any of the nymphs of Paradise
any alluring woman
Origin of houri
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