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“The moon features frequently as a simile for beauty (and indeed Budur’s name means ‘moons’). Beautiful women are conventionally compared to gazelles. It was more common to evoke beauty through metaphor and simile than by close physical description.”

Malcolm C. Lyons, Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange
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Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange by Malcolm C. Lyons
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