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

Note 88 — MA’ARUF THE COBBLER AND HIS WIFE FATIMAH.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Lit. “Kohl’d with Ghunj” for which we have no better word than “coquetry.” But see vol. v. 80. It corresponds with the Latin crissare for women and cevere for men.

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