peri
noun
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
peris
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pluralof peri.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Such words as "blastoderm", "sindoc," "peris," "parasang," "sarcenet," "teazel," "nullah," "cantatrice," "barracan," "sistrum," writhed and hissed in her verses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Camouflaged by rainbows, skylarks, fairies, peris, sensitive plants and Epipsychidions, there was no more successful softener than Sapper Shelley.
From Time Magazine Archive
The term ginn being common to both peris and dives, some have erroneously fancied that the peris were female dives.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
Thus, the dives are hideous and wicked, whilst the peris are beautiful and good.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
Vainly did he string together peris and bulbuls, and sunny apples of Totkahar: the inspiration would not come.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
