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

Then from this beginning the boy can wander at his own sweet will and keep friends with Jacobs, Perrault, Grimm, Andersen, and, last of all and no doubt best of all, "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments."

From Literature for Children by Lowe, Orton

In this book are ballads, fables, fairy stories from Grimm, Perrault, Andersen, "Arabian Nights' Entertainments," and other sources, as well as "Goody Two Shoes," selections from "Gulliver's Travels," classic myths, and other well-known stories.

From Literature for Children by Lowe, Orton

Had I kept a record of my dream-life, what a variety there would have been! what extravagances, exceeded by nothing out of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various

The Pasha always gave the signal to begin to each dish, and between courses the dervish told stories from the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, or uttered witticisms which kept the Nubian Pasha in roars of laughter.

From In the Track of the Troops by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Nothing short of the unexpurgated Arabian Nights' Entertainments can convey an adequate idea of what goes on within those whited sepulchres, the broad, blank walls of Moorish towns.

From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Meakin, Budgett