Note 329 — THE PORTER AND THE THREE LADIES OF BAGHDAD. (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The uglier the old woman the better procuress she is supposed to make. See the Santa Verdiana in Boccaccio v., 10. In Arab. "Ajuz" (old woman) is highly insulting and if addressed to an Egyptian, whatever be her age she will turn fiercely and resent it. The polite term is Shaybah (Pilgrimage iii., 200).