[261]. Arab. “Jabhat,” the lintel opposed to the threshold.
[262]. Arab. “Ghattí,” still the popular term said to a child showing its nakedness, or a lady of pleasure who insults a man by displaying any part of her person.
[263]. She is compared with a flashing blade (her face) now drawn from its sheath (her hair) then hidden by it.
[264]. The “Muajjalah” or money paid down before consummation was about £25; and the “Mu’ajjalah” or coin to be paid contingent on divorce was about £75. In the Calc. Edit. ii. 371, both dowers are £35.
[265]. i.e. All the blemishes which justify returning a slave to the slave-dealer.
[266]. Media: see vol. ii. 94. The “Daylamite prison” was one of many in Baghdad.
[267]. See vol. v. 199. I may remark that the practise of bathing after copulation was kept up by both sexes in ancient Rome. The custom may have originated in days when human senses were more acute. I have seen an Arab horse object to be mounted by the master when the latter had not washed after sleeping with a woman.
[268]. On the morning after a happy night the bridegroom still offers coffee and Halwá to friends.
[269]. i.e. More bewitching.
[270]. Arab. “Sharífí” more usually Ashrafi, the Port. Xerafim, a gold coin = 6s.–7s.