Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A seductive, alluring woman.
- noun One of the beautiful virgins of the Koranic paradise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Among the Mohammedans, a nymph of Paradise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Islam A
nymph in the form of a beautifulvirgin supposed todwell inParadise for theenjoyment of thefaithful . - noun Any
voluptuous ,beautiful woman .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a voluptuously beautiful young woman
- noun (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His passion for revenge was even more determined than his admiration for the "houri," as he called the maiden.
Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing Oliver Optic 1859
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Muslims, do you believe "houri" means grapes as some Muslim scholars have interpreted it?
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And beyond his star-gazing, in his far-imagined heavens, Valkyrie or houri, man has fain made place for her, for he could see no heaven without her.
Chapter 21 2010
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Till you're blue in the face, you darling houri, thinks I - but for answer all I did was kiss her hands.
Fiancée 2010
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Ilderim grinned and wagged his ugly head, and I cursed, thinking here was some bazaar houri plying her trade where it was least wanted, but I staggered out, and sure enough at the foot of the steps was a veiled woman in a sari, but with a burly-looking escort standing farther back at the gate.
Fiancée 2010
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There is nothing carnal intimated at all in the relationship between the righteous soul and the “houri”.
Iran War Resolution May Be Passed Next Week « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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She'd worn uncommon well; middle sixties and still shaped like a Turkish belly-dancer, with the same guileless idiot smile and wondrous blue eyes that had set me slavering when she was sixteen - she'd performed like a demented houri then, and who was to say she'd lost the taste in half a century?
Watershed 2010
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The light over her bunk flicked on and he was staring into the muzzle of an automatic, held rock-steady by this little houri.
Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010
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It was in this spirit that I was able to roger that houri in Borneo during the Batang Lupar battle, whimpering fearfully the while, and do justice to Mrs Popplewell while in flight from the outraged townsfolk of Harper's Ferry.
Watershed 2010
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My one regret as I tooled back to London was that I hadn't been able to bid a riotous farewell to Caprice; she'd been worth the trip, ne'er mind spoking Otto's wheel, and I found myself smiling fondly as I thought of Punch and the gauzy lace clinging to that houri shape in the sunlight ...
Watershed 2010
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