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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Arabian Nights' Entertainments

It was a woman who recited the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments" to the Sultan.

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

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

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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Heathendom may have been represented also, for it may be that messengers from the great caliph of Bagdad, the renowned Haroun al Raschid, the hero of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments," were present in the church.

From Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. by Morris, Charles

For example, if he is a sixth-grade boy, he must by some means manage to get "Robinson Crusoe" and "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments."

From Literature for Children by Lowe, Orton