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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 (of 10)

Note 73 — CONTENTS OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME. (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Mujauhar”: the watery or wavy mark upon Eastern blades is called the “jauhar,” lit. = jewel. The peculiarity is also called water and grain, which gives rise to a host of double-entendres, puns, paronomasias and conceits more or less frigid.

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