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

A plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with introduction, explanatory notes, &c. by Richard F. Burton.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney

Abon Hassan, a young merchant of Bag dad, and hero of the tale called "The Sleeper Awakened," in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

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

Some Arab writers surround it with magical incidents until it becomes a tale worthy of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments."

From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII by Morris, Charles

This tradition is marvellously like an incident of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham