Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
gazel .
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Examples
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Then the flames of the lover's heart burst into song, and he gave utterance to a _ghazel_ now of Hafiz, now of Firdusa, while still more frequently he sang his own songs.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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When at the university I read an Arabian ghazel in which the poet compares the power of love to that of infernal torments.
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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