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Thousand and One Nights

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Thousand and One Nights
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(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) See Arabian Nights' Entertainments
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Noun1.Thousand and One Nights - a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th centuryThousand and One Nights - a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century
Aladdin's lamp - (Arabian Nights) a magical lamp from which Aladdin summoned a genie


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He passed the long hours in an arm-chair so that he should not sleep soundly, and read by the light of shaded candles The Thousand and One Nights.
The next night there happened a similar accident with a similar result; and then the next -- and then again the next; so that, in the end, the good monarch, having been unavoidably deprived of all opportunity to keep his vow during a period of no less than one thousand and one nights, either forgets it altogether by the expiration of this time, or gets himself absolved of it in the regular way, or (what is more probable) breaks it outright, as well as the head of his father confessor.
 
 
 
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