Shulamite
Americannoun
noun
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When the lovely Shulamite in The Song of Solomon cries "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes!"
From Time Magazine Archive
I'll divide it up into characters, and make each boy learn his part—the shepherd, the Shulamite, King Solomon, and all the rest of them.
From Austin and His Friends by Frederic H. Balfour
The Congregation of Israel, according to the Midrash, answers this question in the words of the Shulamite in the Song of Songs: “I sleep, but my heart waketh.”
From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler
A Dancer What will you see in the Shulamite whom the King has compared to an army?
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
The latter supposition is inconceivable; and why should not the Shulamite call herself comely?
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
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