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Almah

Al′ma

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Al′mah

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Noun.
Same as
Alme
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almah

almah

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almah (plural almahs or almah)

  1. An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; a dancing-girl, a prostitute. [from 18th c.]
    • 1998, Catherine Gillivray, translating Hélène Cixous, Firstdays of the Year, Minnesota 1998, p. 157:
      Nostalgia is almah, the Arab dancing girl. She tells me stories of the drowned, the deadest of this world's dead.

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