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Ghazel   Listen
noun
Ghazel, Ghazal  n.  A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ghazel" Quotes from Famous Books



... altitude of the most northerly point to which the Doctor traced the wonderful river was a little in excess of 2,000 feet; so that, though Baker makes out his lake to be 2,700 feet above the sea, yet the Bahr Ghazal, through which Petherick's branch of the White Nile issues into the Nile, is but 2,000 feet; in which case there is a possibility that the Lualaba may be none other ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley

... Kasidah, Ode or Elegy rhymed couplets numbering more than thirteen: If shorter it is called a "Ghazal." I have not thought it necessary ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton



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