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houri

noun

1 houri

A voluptuously beautiful young woman.

synonym: nymph.

Polish: hurysa, krasawica, piękność, sylfida

2 houri

Islam One of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise.

Polish: hurysa, huryska

Roget 845: beauty, the beautiful, to kalon [Gr.], le beau ideal.    [Science of the perception of beauty] aesthetics, callaesthetics.    [-beauty of people] pulchritude, form, elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Adonis, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollo Belvedere, Aspasia, Astarte, Balder, Cleopatra, Delilah, Freya, Hebe, Hyperion, Jezebel, Messalina, Narcissus, Phryne, Thais, Venus, Venus de Milo, adventuress ... show more.

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