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plural almahs or almah
An Egyptian singer or dancing-girl used for entertainment; a dancing-girl, a prostitute. quotations examples
Nostalgia is almah, the Arab dancing girl. She tells me stories of the drowned, the deadest of this world's dead.
1998, Hélène Cixous, translated by Catherine Gillivray, Firstdays of the Year, Minnesota, page 157