Arabian Nights' Entertainments

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noun

1. Also known as: the Thousand and One Nights. Often shortened to: the Arabian Nights. a collection of oriental folk tales dating from the tenth century

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Arabian Nights' Entertainments

That Dorian, who is heir to an earldom, should have fixed his affections upon her governess, seems to Mrs. Redmond like a gay continuation of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments."

From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

I think perhaps you will like this better,” said Mr. Knox, taking down a copy of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.

From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin

It reads like a romance, a story out of "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments."

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

To suppose otherwise in this or in other cases, would be to reduce Scripture to the standard of Tales for Children, or Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox

An Arabic MS., in seven volumes, written in 1764-5, and containing what is rarely met with, a complete collection of the Thousand and One Tales of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, was bought from Capt.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray

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