Some of the vocabulary in Thousand and One Nights can be described as archaic because it is language of the past
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Archaic is defined as very old or old-fashioned; it also refers to a word or a style of language which is no longer used used but is sometimes a resource to impart an old-fashioned flavour.
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales written in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.
