Zoraida (3 syl.)
. Daughter of Agimoraʹto of Algiers, who becomes a Christian and elopes with Ruy Perez de Viedma, an officer of Leon. The story is told in an episode of Don Quixote, called The Captive’s Life and Adventures. (Bk. iv. chap. ix.-xi.)
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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.