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

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

From Mirror of the Months by Patmore, Peter George

One of these little valleys reminded me of a scene in the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments;" it was indeed a fairy land, to describe which I am quite incompetent.

From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John

Hence the peculiar avidity with which such books as the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments," and others of a still wilder cast, are, or at least were in my time, sought for by the boys.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

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 Macray, William Dunn

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 Coffin, Charles Carleton