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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 (of 10)

Note 380 — THE MAN OF AL-YAMAN AND HIS SIX SLAVE-GIRLS.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. “Suláfah;” properly ptisane which flows from the grapes before pressure. The plur. “Sawálif” also means tresses of hair and past events: thus there is a “triple entendre.” And again “he” is used for “she.”

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