A river that flows near the ruins of Chilʹminarʹ or Istacharʹ, in the province of Chusistanʹ in Persia.
“There’s a bower of roses by Bendemeer’s stream,
And the nightingale sings round it all the day long.”
T. Moore: Lalla Rookh, Part 1.
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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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