NOUN
- a voluptuously beautiful young woman
- (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise
How To Use houri In A Sentence
- The lawer transe was condempned, diverse slane into it, and the East blok-house was schote of fra the rest of the place, betuix ten houris and ellevin. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
- Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged — for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave. Flashman and the Dragon
- Shourie panicked, while the finance ministry tried to put up a brave face, saying it was just a regular correction.
- I have also indulged myself with words such as 'djinn' and 'houri' and 'hooligan' which Taita never employed, but which, I feel certain, he would have used if they had formed part of his vocabulary. River God
- In his arms, in the dark, she became the epitome of woman, in truth the houri he'd labelled her. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
- Unfortunately, Khouri appears to have little sympathy with those she fooled into believing her tales.
- Beautiful as a houri of Paradise, she turned her head modestly away. KARA KUSH
- The light over her bunk flicked on and he was staring into the muzzle of an automatic, held rock-steady by this little houri. Ten Minutes, That's It
- It is the job of a houri to climb or fly because ordinarily mundane girls or woman hardly climb over the trees.
- While Khouri's mendacity is uncontestable, Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski thankfully has more on her mind than simply debunking her subject in Forbidden Lie$. Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: Forbidden Lie$