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Word: houris (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...fanned for two hours to cool it off after an hour's run. And when you read this report on how our first issue got printed , I think you will understand why nobody else has ever before tried to bring out a newsmagazine in the land of the houri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...There, at swank Grosvenor House, which puts on one of the flashiest girl shows in the British Isles, the 67-year-old Sultan of Johore spends the sort of life that few 20th-century sultans live outside the sultry cartoons of Esquire. Last week Johore rejoiced in a new houri, the shift being directly due to Adolf Hitler's war against England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHORE: New Houri | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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