Peri potmother
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- peri: (Persian) in Persian Mythology, one of a race of superhuman beings, originally represented as having an evil or malevolent character, but subsequently as good genii, fairies, or angels, endowed with grace and beauty
- Paradise and the Peri: the second of four narrative poems by the Irish poet and songwriter Thomas Moore comprising his "Eastern Romance" Lalla Rookh (Rook = Issy?) → Robert Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, a choral setting of a German translation of Moore's poem
- The Peer and the Peri: suititle of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Iolanthe (1882)
- Jacopo Peri (1561 – 1633) an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, often called the inventor of opera
- peri: (Hebrew) fruit
- peří: (Czech) feather
- peri potmon: (Greek) concerning fate
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