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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)

Note 297 — ABU AL-HUSN AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL TAWADDUD.[281]

Richard Francis Burton translation

She unveiled being a slave-girl and for sale. If a free woman show her face to a Moslem, he breaks out into violent abuse, because the act is intended to let him know that he is looked upon as a small boy or an eunuch or a Christian—in fact not a man.

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