houri

/hoor-ee, houuhr-ee, hou-uh-ree/US // ˈhʊər i, ˈhaʊər i, ˈhaʊ ə ri //UK // (ˈhʊərɪ) //

侯里,侯丽,侯立,侯瑞

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural hou·ris.
- : one of the beautiful virgins provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims.

This houri of Sa'adi would not pause to note the difference in writing; the vitalness of the subject would enchain her thoughts.
There was nothing left now but to greet her upon her arrival, this golden houri from the verses of Sa'adi.
This was no longer Sa'adi's houri but the young woman who had mastered the lion in the railway train.
We hope that houri melted entirely away in the window; but we certainly did not stay to see.
In his early youth he remembered to have seen, somewhere in Greece, such a houri as was this Madame Goesler.