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Ru'bái•yát of O'mar Khayyám', The



Pronunciation: (rOO'bī-yät", -bē-), [key]
n.
a free translation (first published in 1859) by Edward FitzGerald of a group of quatrains by the Persian poet Omar Khayyám.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

rub-a-dubRubaiyat stanza
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