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Scheherazade|ʃəˌhɛrəˈzɑːd, ʃəˌhɪər-, -ˈzɑːdə|
The name of the female narrator of the Arabian Nights, used allusively as the type of a (usu. young and attractive female) teller of long or numerous stories.
1851Dickens Let. 25 Oct. in W. Gérin E. Gaskell (1976) xii. 123 My dear Scheherazade,—For I am sure your powers of narrative..must be good for at least a thousand nights and one. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-Table iii. 87, I had noticed that the Young Girl—the story-writer, our Scheherazade, as I called her—looked as if she had been crying or lying awake half the night. 1896G. B. Shaw Let. 5 July (1965) I. 634 Or are you only a flattering storytelling Scheherezade? 1946L. P. Hartley Sixth Heaven i. 4 ‘I'm afraid it will be a long story,’ he said... ‘Waste no time in self-depreciation, Scheherazade, but..take up your tale.’ 1973G. Butler Coffin for Pandora viii. 192 You're a teller of tales, young lady... Quite a Scheherazade. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xxix. 343 During that happy time, a blond Scheherazade, she told me the story of her life. 1981A. Fraser Splash of Red i. 11 That's another story I shall tell you... I shall be Scheherazade. |