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  • noun Plural form of slave-girl.

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Examples

  • "You shall not force your slave-girls into prostitution in order that you make money, if they wish to preserve their chastity."

    David Kronke: TV Shows Islamic Extremists Should Be Attacking Rather Than "South Park" 2010

  • Even more pertinent to our context are the scores of Arabic women poets, Eastern and Andalusian; princesses, courtesans and slave-girls; fighters, mystics, and musicians, whose names, and sometimes also their texts, have been preserved, or rediscovered (Nichols 1979, 114 – 117).

    Medieval Hebrew Literature: Portrayal of Women. 2009

  • Other Victorian painters did enjoy using Middle-Eastern themes -- naked slave-girls, Bedouin encampments, afternoons in the harem -- but no-one seriously thought that Islam as such had anything of value to offer the West.

    Unhinder us! 2009

  • Thence he descended to the inner court and, making his way into the Harim, found all the slave-girls lying asleep, each on her own couch; and amongst them reclining on

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • When she reached the palace, she enquired for the King, and the slave-girls and concubines replied to her, “O my lady, he is gone forth a-hunting and sporting.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In such pleasant condition I continued eight days running, going in to her at the hour of afternoon prayer and leaving her at daybreak; but, on the eighth night, as I lay with her, behold, one of her slave-girls came running in and said to me, ‘Arise, go up into yonder closet.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thereupon he bade bring beautiful slave-girls and concubines and singers and players upon instruments of music, whose like are not found but with the Kings: and sent them to Janshah, so haply they might divert him from the love of the lady Shamsah.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • However, Allah inclined the hearts of the slave-girls to her and they used to do her service in the kitchen.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Meanwhile, the Wazir daily promised him the attainment of his desire and the case so continued for a time till, one morning, as the youth sat in the shop, there came up an old woman of respectable semblance and dignified presence clad in raiment of devotees267 and followed by two slave-girls like moons.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And when her fellow slave-girls said to her, “What wilt thou name him?” she answered, “Were his father well he had named him; but now I will name him Aslán.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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