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n. - (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.

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  • With women like Cressida, Gertrude, and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, the jinnee is out of the bottle.
  • At last, through the aid of a friendly jinnee, the hero recovers her, captures the ape, and encloses it forever in a bottle of brass.
  • If Schiller and Goethe dare once to come out of their exile, then Nestroy's plum-pudding jinnee steps in their path, and they of course modestly give way to him.
  • When the great jinnee of music had once more swept out of the hall, the
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