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noun
- (in The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments) the wife of the sultan of India, who relates such interesting tales nightly that the sultan spares her life.
- (italics) a symphonic suite (1888) by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov.
The sultan’s wife who narrates the Arabian Nights.