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[ The hair being shaven or plucked and showing the darker skin. In the case of the axilla-pile, vellication is the popular process: see vol. ix. 139. Europeans who do not adopt this essential part of cleanliness in hot countries are looked upon as impure by Moslems.]
196 ([return])
[ Here a little abbreviation has been found necessary: "of no avail is a twice-told tale.">[
197 ([return])
[ The nearest approach in Eastern tales to Western hysterics.]
198 ([return])
[ A tent-pitcher, body servant, etc. See vol. vii. 4. The word is still popular in Persia.]
199 ([return])
[ The amount of eating and drinking in this tale is phenomenal; but, I repeat, Arabs enjoy reading of "meat and drink" almost as much as Englishmen.]