guzlas

Updated: May 24, 2025

Without listening to my repeated refusals, Granson begged me to call him henceforth Sidi-Mahmoud; had his room spread with Persian rugs, ottomans piled up in every direction, the walls cushioned to lean against, and perfumes scattered about; three or four dusky musicians placed themselves in a convenient recess with taraboucks, rebeks and guzlas an Ethiopean, naked to the waist, served us the precious drug on a red lacquered waiter.

Théophile Gautier - The Cross of Berny

They accompanied on guzlas, on castanets, on tambourines, and sang the old airs, doleful and languorous, or excitable and breathless as the flight of the earliest nomads in the beginnings of the world.

Gaston Leroux - The Secret of the Night