Plural of almah; multiple Egyptian dancing girls or female entertainers.
The plural form of 'almah,' following standard English pluralization by adding '-s.' The term gained visibility through 19th-century European travel literature and colonial accounts.
Colonial-era travel writing was full of descriptions of almahs, and these accounts shaped European fantasies about the East—but they tell us more about what Victorians wanted to believe than about actual Egyptian culture!
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