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- noun figuratively A
pampered female with anaristocratic demeanor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ninevites and the Queen of Sheba will be the victors over Israel in the day of judgment.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I. 1872-1939 1903
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The race descended from Hagar, of which the Queen of Sheba is the most brilliant reminder, has given to the world the most of its profound literature, elegant poetry, art, science and occultism.
The Woman's Bible Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1858
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The fact that we might have the Queen of Sheba's mines is extraordinary.
Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth 2012
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Its people are the Jebali, hardy, semi-nomadic camel-herders whose mother tongue is not Arabic but an ancient South Arabian language related to that once spoken by the Queen of Sheba.
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Another is the Queen of Sheba, who travelled from what is believed to be Yemen at great peril to herself to meet King Solomon in Jerusalem.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: Just a Century Ago, a Woman Ruled in the Gulf Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi 2011
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I have what I came here for, and I am in illustrious company with the likes of the Queen of Sheba, with my own real, albeit tiny, prized Bahraini pearl.
In Search of Bahraini Pearls Katherine Bergen 2010
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"Whut in creation's happenin 'out theah?" demands the Queen of Sheba.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Solomon immediately told the Queen of Sheba: “These are the uncircumcised, and these are the circumcised.”
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When the Queen of Sheba saw that he solved her riddles, she brought before him children who were of the same height and who were in like attire.
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The riddles that the Queen of Sheba put to Solomon attest to familiarity with the stories of the Torah, and especially with those about Gentiles (the daughters of Lot, Balaam and Job).
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