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  • But the Maroccan City (Night dlxvi. et seq.) was of brass (not copper).

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Maghrabi” = a Mauritanian, Maroccan, the Moors (not the Moorish Jews or Arabs) being a race of Sodomites from highest to lowest.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Tá álík” = hanging lamps, often in lantern shape with coloured glass and profuse ornamentation; the Maroccan are now familiar to

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But the mountainous tribes who represent three fourths of a Maroccan population have kept themselves almost free from mixture; white or blond, they always resemble, by the color of their skin or texture of hair, the Europeans of Germany or France rather than the

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • Accordingly Alaeddin went forth to his uncle and, wishing him good morning, kissed his hand; and the Maroccan took him by the hand and fared with him to the Bazar.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The Maroccan answered, "O my lady, all it wanteth is that there be hanging from the middle of the dome the egg of a fowl called the Rukh; [FN#225] and, were this done, the pavilion would lack its peer all the world over."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • [FN#13] i.e. Weevil's dung; hence Suez = Suways the little weevil, or "little Sus" from the Maroccan town: see The Mines of

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Thereupon the lad mustered up strength and girt the loins of resolution and did as the Maroccan had bidden him, and hove up the slab with all ease when he pronounced his name and the names of his parents, even as the Magician had bidden him.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • "Tá álík" = hanging lamps, often in lantern shape with coloured glass and profuse ornamentation; the Maroccan are now familiar to England.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • [FN#382] Mr. Payne reads "Maghrabi" = a Mauritanian, Maroccan, the Moors (not the Moorish Jews or Arabs) being a race of

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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