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‖ Ouled Nail|ˈuːlɪd ˈnɑːiːl, -naɪl, -neɪl|
[Fr., f. Ouled Naïl, ad. Arab., lit. ‘sons of Nail’.]
A group of Arab peoples of Algeria; spec. in North African cities: an Arab professional dancing girl belonging to these peoples.
1881A. A. Knox New Playground xiii. 324 Perhaps the less said the better about the dancing women, who are, if I remember right, called ‘oulad naïl’. They inhabit a street apart at Biskra, and come from some distant part of the desert. 1906M. W. Hilton-Simpson Algiers & Beyond iv. 77 One of the most interesting features..is the cafés maures, in which the Ouled Naïl girls dance. Ibid. 82 The Ouled Naïls will speak to anyone... Their morality will not bear close investigation. 1914M. D. Stott Real Algeria ii. 20 Khadava admitted with the most sweet of cynical smiles that it was only to English and Germans that she confessed to being an Ouled Nail—it was found to be more profitable. 1956L. Morgan Flute of Sand v. 82 ‘The psychology of an Ouled Naïl dancing girl,’ a French administrator had told me, ‘is very difficult to understand.’ 1973Wodehouse Bachelors Anonymous ix. 122 ‘Oh dear. Are you hurt?’ she wailed, and ran to where Mr Trout was pirouetting like an Ouled Nail dancer with his hand to his mouth. 1975‘P. Loraine’ Ask Rattlesnake i. ii. 53 The Ouled Nails, the North African tribe which trains its women to become whores in the dissolute coastal cities. |