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An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians

Note 432 — Chapter XIII · CHARACTER.

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A respectable female is generally addressed, in a letter, as “the guarded lady, and concealed jewel” (“es-sitt el-masooneh wa-l-góharah el-meknooneh”).

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