ALME  or ALMAI (from 4lim, See also:

• WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER (1806-1876)
• WISE, ISAAC MAYER (1819-1900)

wise, learned), the name of a class of singing girls in See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt who are See also:

• PRESENT

present at festivals and entertainments, and See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act as hired mourners at funerals . They are to be distinguished from the ghawazee, or dancing girls, who perform in the public streets and are of a See also:

• LOWER

lower See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order .