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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 (of 10)

Note 390 — ALI NUR AL-DIN AND MIRIAM THE GIRDLE-GIRL.[376]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

For Roum see vol. iv. 100: in Morocco “Roumi” means simply a European. The tetrastich alludes to the beauty of the Greek slaves.

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