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Ayeʹshah (3 syl.)

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Mahomet’s second and favourite wife. He married her when she was only nine years old, and died in her arms.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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