See houri on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2009, Nerina Rustomji, The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 114:",
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"ref": "2002 January 12, Ibn Warraq, “Virgins? What virgins?”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "We cannot go into the technical details of his methodology but it allows Luxenberg, to the probable horror of all Muslim males dreaming of sexual bliss in the Muslim hereafter, to conjure away the wide-eyed houris promised to the faithful in suras XLIV.54; LII.20, LV.72, and LVI.22. Luxenberg's new analysis, leaning on the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, yields \"white raisins\" of \"crystal clarity\" rather than doe-eyed, and ever willing virgins - the houris.",
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"ref": "2013, “What If…?”, in Still Smiling, performed by Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld:",
"text": "What if in paradise there are no houris waiting? / What if but all you get are grapes, succulent grapes? / What if it's all just a mistake in the translation?",
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"ref": "2017, Matthew S. Gordon, Kathryn A. Hain, Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 274:",
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"ref": "1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 74, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:",
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"feminine"
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"lang": "Russian",
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"feminine"
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"code": "sh",
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"feminine"
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[
"odalisque",
"odalisque"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"beauty (beautiful woman)"
],
"links": [
[
"beauty",
"beauty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) beauty (beautiful woman)"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/u.ʁi/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-i"
}
],
"word": "houri"
}
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