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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Prophetess

(The). Ay-e'shah, the second wife of Mahomet; so called, not because she had any gift of prophecy, but simply because she was the favourite wife of the “prophet;” she was, therefore, emphatically “Mrs. Prophet.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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