Shulamite

American

[shoo-luh-mahyt] / ˈʃu ləˌmaɪt /

noun

an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the biblical book of Song of Solomon.

Shulamite British

/ ˈʃuːləˌmaɪt /

noun

Old Testament an epithet of uncertain meaning applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13

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Alice and Claude Askew's South African Novel, "The Shulamite," is one of the most popular of successful novels.

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To me you are Hephzibah—yes, and the Shulamite.

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Margarete's presence is signaled, like a motif in music, by long wisps of golden straw, while Shulamite's emblem is charred substance and black shadow.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But in spite of the verbal repetition of several of the figures of ch. iv.... the tone in which the king now addresses the Shulamite is quite changed.

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