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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOURI , the See also:

term for a beautiful virgin who awaits the devout See also:Mahommedan in See also:Paradise. The word is the See also:French representative of the Pers. huri, Arab. hawra', a See also:black-eyed virgin, from hawira, to be black-eyed, like a gazelle.

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