Scheherazade

[ shuh-her-uh-zah-duh, -zahd, -heer- ]

noun

1. (in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments ) the wife of the sultan of India, who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life.
2. (italics) a symphonic suite (1888) by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov.

Scheherazade

1. The sultan's wife who narrates the Arabian Nights.

Example Sentences

He compares himself to Scheherazade, whose survival was based on her ability to weave tale after tale.

From The Daily Beast

“I believe in storytelling as deeply as Scheherazade did,” says the Iranian novelist Laleh Khadivi.

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Marton diverted his attention by spinning amusing stories until he fell asleep, just as Scheherazade did.

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Keith lusts for Scheherazade and Lily provokes and even encourages him toward her.

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It is a wild and romantic fable in the mouth of the Princess Scheherazade; but it is grim reality in the world to-day.

From Project Gutenberg

“Good-bye, Scheherazade dear,” he said, with a new seriousness in his voice which made the tone of it almost tender.

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One hears the whistling parabolas of the flutes and clarinets of "Scheherazade" in "Mlada," in "Sadko," in a half-dozen works.

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A heavy bronze incense burner pours forth fumes of Bichara's Scheherazade.

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There is a new story every morning, and nobody to cut off the head of the Scheherazade.

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