Note 157 — THE PORTER AND THE THREE LADIES OF BAGHDAD.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. "Húr al-Ayn," lit. (maids) with eyes of lively white and black, applied to the virgins of Paradise who will wive with the happy Faithful. I retain our vulgar "Houri," warning the reader that it is a masc. for a fem. ("Huríyah") in Arab, although accepted in Persian, a genderless speech.