peris
- plural of peri.
Example Sentences
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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
And up an avenue of giant plane trees the peris led him, dumb with amazement.
From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew
The Moors, the best physicians of the Middle Ages, had their heads full, as the “Arabian Nights” prove, of enchanters, genii, peris, and what not?
From Historical Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles
In his celestial court were parikas, the glittering bayaderes of love that a later faith called peris, but his sole consorts were Prayers.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar
