OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 40213

houri

/ˈhʊəɹi/
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hurí
A beautiful virgin girl supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful.
They went through the courtyard, past a naked copper houri tilting a water-jar that merely dripped[.]
We cannot go into the technical details of his methodology but it allows Luxenberg, to the probable horror of all Muslim males dreaming of sexual bliss in the Muslim hereafter, to…
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