Also alme, almeh. [a. Arab. salmah, adj. fem. ‘learned, knowing’; f. salama ‘to know’ (because they have been instructed in music and dancing). Cf. Fr. almée.] An Egyptian dancing-girl.
1814. Byron, Corsair, II. ii. 8. While dance the Almas to wild minstrelsy.
a. 1877. ‘Ouida,’ Tricotrin, I. 394. Dance like an almah among the scarlet beans of the cottage garden.
