📚 Peri, noun. 🔉 /ˈpɪəri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (in Persian mythology) a mythical superhuman being, originally represented as evil but subsequently as a good or graceful genie or fairy. ❗️ Examples: 1. Her androgynous form traverses his art as Desdemona and Jason, Leda and Apollo, St Sebastian and Delilah, a dead poet and a peri, Helen of Troy and Ganymede, Jacob's angel and a Eumenide on the track of Orestes. 2. The angels, or peris, on the floorspread, very distinctive in style, are unusual motifs to find on an embroidery. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic