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She went into the mafraj room where her parents sat with friends in the afternoons and where the children slept at night.
Girls to the Rescue book #2 Bruce Lansky 1995
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She went into the mafraj room where her parents sat with friends in the afternoons and where the children slept at night.
Girls to the Rescue book #2 Bruce Lansky 1995
knitandpurl commented on the word mafraj
"Like the time in San'ā, at the close of an evening of qāt, relaxing mafraj brightened by polychrome windows, leaving at dawn, garden, circular openings, rings and acroteria, lacy cornices, walking to Hammam al-Maydān, dome and cistern, spray of water falling into concentric traces of itself, pool receiving reflection of sunbeam."
Talismano by Abdelwahab Meddeb, translated by Jane Kuntz, p 215 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback
October 1, 2011