477 ([return])
[ Keszr.]
478 ([return])
[ Wa, but quaere au ("or")?]
479 ([return])
[ Kushk.]
480 ([return])
[ The description of the famous upper hall with the four-and-twenty windows is one of the most contused and incoherent parts of the Nights and well-nigh defies the efforts of the translator to define the exact nature of the building described by the various and contradictory passages which refer to it. The following is a literal rendering of the above passage: "An upper chamber (keszr) and (or?) a kiosk (kushk, a word explained by a modern Syrian dictionary as meaning '[
481 ([return])
[ Night DLXV.]