NOUN
- a voluptuously beautiful young woman
- (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise
How To Use houri In A Sentence
- Sheols of houris in chems upon divans, (revolted stellas vespertine vesamong them) at a bare (O!) mention of the scaly rybald exclaimed: Poisse! Finnegans Wake
- If Khouri is as mentally unstable as the article implies then that's a bit harsh, don't you reckon?
- From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave. Flashman And The Dragon
- Aberdeen witches in 1597 held their dance 'wpon Hallowewin last bypast, at tuelff houris at ewin or thairby' (or more particularly) 'betuixt tuell & ane houris at nycht'. [ The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
- And beyond his star-gazing, in his far-imagined heavens, Valkyrie or houri, man has fain made place for her, for he could see no heaven without her. Chapter 21
- Besides Mr. Shourie, the telecom minister from January 2003 till May 2004 under the former Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government, Vinod Vaish , federal telecom secretary during the same period, was questioned Friday, said a spokesman for the CBI. India Investigators Question Former Telecom Minister Shourie
- Till you're blue in the face, you darling houri, thinks I - but for answer all I did was kiss her hands. Fiancée
- Muslims, do you believe "houri" means grapes as some Muslim scholars have interpreted it? Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
- In the gardens of paradise, the houris utter only one word: ‘Peace, peace.'