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Harem - or silage
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seraglio
Alternative clues for the word seraglio
- Turkish palace
- Sultan's palace
- Algiers at odds with old palace of Constantinople
- Gaoler is arranging residence for 17
- Sultanic palace's doubtful statement to stop return of solid-fuel alternatives
- Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
- Title setting for a Mozart abduction
Word definitions for seraglio in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seraglio \Se*ragl"io\, n. [It. serraglio, originally, an inclosure of palisades, afterwards also, a palace, seraglio (by confusion with Per. ser[=a "i]a a palace, an entirely different word), fr. serrare to shut, fr. LL. serra a bar for fastening doors, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household [syn: harem , hareem , serail ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"harem," also the name of a former palace of the sultan in Istanbul, 1580s, from Italian seraglio , alteration of Turkish saray "palace, court," from Persian sara'i "palace, inn," from Iranian base *thraya- "to protect" (cognates: Avestan thrayeinti "they ...
Usage examples of seraglio.
I cast a hungry gaze on this young lady without more ado, just as if all the women in Europe were only a seraglio kept for my pleasures.
As those heretics were, for the most part, averse to the pleasures of sense, they morosely arraigned the polygamy of the patriarchs, the gallantries of David, and the seraglio of Solomon.
On the way he said that if I liked he could get me a perfect seraglio of pretty girls in a few days.
I fancied myself in the midst of a seraglio, and I amused myself by watching their meek and modest looks as they did their work under the direction of the foreman.
Throughout this week I made Possano and my brother take their meals with us, and as the latter did not understand a word the good lady said, he did not speak a word himself, and might have passed for a mute of the seraglio.
The Comte de Tot, brother of the baron, who lost all his money at the seraglio, and whom I had met again at the Hague, introduced me.
I asked him whether that were his seraglio, and he replied that it might be so, but that jealousy was unknown, as I should see for myself if I cared to spend a week with him.
The central chamber of the seraglio, if I may so call it, the largest and midmost of those in the rear of the garden, devoted as of course to the ladies of the household, was especially magnificent.
His sable complexion and thick lips declared him to be a moorman from across the seas, and his beardless chin further told at a glance that he was an attendant at the seraglio of some rich noble.
Huge carved wooden doors set in high walls marked the entrance to the seraglio guarded by the fierce Rohilla guards.
Moslem seraglios place the procreative burden on a few underproductive fathers.
But I think it was a woman named Zenaida, a concubine who haunts the deserted areas of the old seraglio, abandoned now even by the palace servants.
I cast a hungry gaze on this young lady without more ado, just as if all the women in Europe were only a seraglio kept for my pleasures.
When I got back to my small seraglio I supped merrily with the five nymphs, and spent a delicious night with Victoire, who was overjoyed at having made my conquest.
I told her that I was going to give up business, for she thought that my seraglio was the only obstacle to my marriage with her.