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alma, almah|ˈælmə| Also alme, almeh. [a. Arab. ﻋalmah, adj. fem. ‘learned, knowing’; f. ﻋalama ‘to know’ (because they have been instructed in music and dancing). Cf. Fr. almée.] An Egyptian dancing-girl.
1814Byron Corsair ii. ii. 8 While dance the Almas to wild minstrelsy. a1877Ouida Tricotrin I. 394 Dance like an almàh among the scarlet beans of the cottage garden. |