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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.
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