1883, pp. 214-216.)

A Persian treatise on the figurative terms relating to beauty
shows that the hair should be black, abundant, and wavy, the
eyebrows dark and arched. The eyelashes also must be dark, and
like arrows from the bow of the eyebrows. There is, however, no
insistence on the blackness of the eyes. We hear of four
varieties of eye: the dark-gray eye (or narcissus eye); the
narrow, elongated eye of Turkish beauties; the languishing, or
love-intoxicated, eye; and the wine-colored eye. Much stress is
laid on the quality of brilliancy. The face is sometimes
described as brown, but more especially as white and rosy. There
are many references to the down on the lips, which is described
as greenish (sometimes bluish) and compared to herbage. This down
and that on the cheeks and the stray hairs near the ears were
regarded as very great beauties. A beauty spot on the chin,
cheek, or elsewhere was also greatly admired, and evoked many
poetic comparisons. The mouth must be very small. In stature a
beautiful woman must be tall and erect, like the cypress or the
maritime pine. While the Arabs admired the rosiness of the legs
and thighs, the Persians insisted on white legs and compared them
to silver and crystal. (_Anis El-Ochchaq_, by Shereef-Eddin Romi,
translated by Huart, _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes_,
Paris, fasc. 25, 1875.)

In the story of Kamaralzaman in the _Arabian Nights_ El-Sett
Budur is thus described: "Her hair is so brown that it is blacker
than the separation of friends. And when it is arrayed in three
tresses that reach to her feet I seem to see three nights at
once.

"Her face is as white as the day on which friends meet again. If
I look on it at the time of the full moon I see two moons at
once.

"Her cheeks are formed of an anemone divided into two corollas;
they have the purple tinge of wine, and her nose is straighter
and more delicate than the finest sword-blade.

"Her lips are colored agate and coral; her tongue secretes
eloquence; her saliva is more desirable than the juice of
grapes.

"But her bosom, blessed be the Creator, is a living seduction. It
bears twin breasts of the purest ivory, rounded, and that may be
held within the five fingers of one hand.

"Her belly has dimples full of shade and arranged with the