Arabian Nights' Entertainments

British  

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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Example Sentences

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 Project Gutenberg

But I had no time for musing; I was amazingly tired; I looked at the group of Turks in one corner, and regretted that I could not talk with them; thought of the Tower of Babel and the wickedness of man, which brought about a confusion of tongues; of camel-drivers, and Arabian Nights' Entertainments; of home, and my own comfortable room in the third story; brought my boot down with a thump that made them all start, and in five minutes was asleep.

From Project Gutenberg

"Since the days of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, we know of no writer who 'takes the cake' like Mr. George Griffith."

From Project Gutenberg

But beneath the full meridian of midnight, what is like them, except some parts of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments?

From Project Gutenberg

Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865, was the most spectacular illustrated edition to be published in the Victorian age.

From The Guardian