Note 391 — THE LADY WITH TWO COYNTES.

i.e. My wife. In addition to notes in vols. i. 165, and iv. 9, 126, I would observe that “Harím” (women) is the broken plur. of “Hurmah;” from Haram, the honour of the house, forbidden to all save her spouse. But it is also an infinitive (whose plur. is Harîmát = the women of a family); and in places it is still used for the women’s apartment, the gynæceum. The latter by way of distinction I have mostly denoted by the good old English corruption “Harem.”