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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HOURI , the See also:

TERM

term for a beautiful virgin who awaits the devout See also:

MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan in See also:

PARADISE (Gr. lrap6BEwos)

Paradise . The word is the See also:

French representative of the Pers. huri, Arab. hawra', a See also:

black-eyed virgin, from hawira, to be black-eyed, like a gazelle .

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