daughter of the desert

plural daughters of the desert

1. literaryA woman who traditionally inhabits a desert region, as an Arab.

   Leaving the field of war for that of love, I asked about their marriage customs - how daughters of the desert were wooed and won.

   1902, Henry M. Field, On the Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, page 72

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   He looked down upon the girl beside him—a daughter of the desert walking across the face of a dead world with a son of the jungle.

   1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Through the Valley of the Shadow”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 137