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Brewer's: Amine
(3 syl.).
Wife of Sidi Nouman, who ate her rice with a bodkin, and was in fact a ghoul. “She was so hard-hearted that she led about her three sisters like a leash of greyhounds.” —Arabian Nights.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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