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houries

houries is the plural of houri.

Meaning of houri

Noun

houri (plural houris)

  1. A beautiful virgin girl supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful.
    • They went through the courtyard, past a naked copper houri tilting a water-jar that merely dripped[.]1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 53
  2. (broadly) Any voluptuous, beautiful woman.
    • I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio; gazelle-eyes, houri forms and all!1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IX, in Jane Eyre. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 242

Questions about houries

What is houries the plural of?
Houries is the plural of houri.

Words near houries in the dictionary

  1. hourglasses
  2. hourglassing
  3. houri
  4. Houria
  5. Hourias
  6. houries
  7. Hourigan
  8. Hourigans
  9. Hourihan
  10. Hourihans
  11. houris

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