Words / 1907 Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge / H / Houri
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Houri, a beautiful maiden who, according to the Mohammedan faith, awaits the advent of a pious Moslem in Paradise.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Houri in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable