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odalisque

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Odalisque \O`da`lisque"\, n. [F., fr. Turk. odaliq chambermaid, fr. oda chamber, room.] A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. [Written also odahlic , odalisk , and odalik .] Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Odalisque is a 2005 fantasy novel by Fiona McIntosh and the first in the Percheron series.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio. 2 A desirable or sexually attractive woman.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman who cohabits with an important man [syn: concubine , courtesan , doxy , paramour ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Have you found any new sources to replace Playboy's Playmate of the Month as the contemporary odalisque ? ▪ Rarely in the history of art have little boys or exotic animals been portrayed as sensual odalisques. ▪ The naked white ...

Usage examples of odalisque.

The card showed an odalisque smoking a Turkish cigarette, in a startling acrobatic posture.

It was named Odalisque Ill, and it was the splendid playtoy of Lady Vivian Stanley-Tucker of St.

And the great warm tide of her pleasure and her gratitude took us down into the cool humming, buzzing grotto of the Odalisque below decks, into the deep bunk leaving behind us on the carpeting a hasty trail of bikini top, swim truffle, and bikini bottom where, with the accompaniment of her giggles and sighs and little instructional signals, we played our favorite game of winding up that lmcurious engine of a body of hers to such an aching pitch that a single Might touch, carefully planned, pushed her over the edge.

He reached out to determine the exact position of the first odalisque he was to mate with that night.

It was named Odalisque III, and it was the splendid playtoy of Lady Vivian Stanley-Tucker of St.

And the great warm tide of her pleasure and her gratitude took us down into the cool humming, buzzing grotto of the Odalisque below decks, into the deep bunk-leaving behind us on the carpeting a hasty trail of bikini top, swim trunks, and bikini bottom where, with the accompaniment of her giggles and sighs and little instructional signals, we played our favorite game of winding up that luxurious engine of a body of hers to such an aching pitch that a single slight touch, carefully planned, pushed her over the edge.

The Medusa wears a kind of chain-mail backless evening gown and Hellenic sandals, the Odalisque a Merry Widow.

Like the odalisque, the moon seems filled to overflowing with sweetmeats and sperm, but the haze through which it rises is emaciated, phlegm-choked, and dappled with sores that almost certainly are malignant.

She stirred like an odalisque in the dying light, and recrossed her polished legs.

There was a printed caption near where a stamp could be placed: Odalisques with great beauty and high intelligence were carefully trained to be concubines.

And for the next two centuries, rather than being murdered when a new sultan ascended the throne, possible claimants were incarcerated, widi deaf-mutes for servants and barren odalisques for companionship.

There was a printed caption near where a stamp could be placed: Odalisques with great beauty and high intelligence were carefully trained to be concubines.

And if he felt himself rather a ghost revisiting glimpses of a forgotten moon, if all the odalisques were new to his vision and all the sultans strange, if never an eye that scanned his face turned back for a second look in uncertain reminiscence, he had to console him the company of a young woman whom everybody seemed to know and admire and like.

For as my father's odalisque, she had been privy to a great many wicked things in his caravan — all of his conspiracies with his cronies — in the time since her good husband, Banos, had been taken in the tithe.

Women who read, much more women who write, are, in the existing constitution of things, a contradiction and a disturbing element: and it was wrong to bring women up with any acquirements but those of an odalisque, or of a domestic servant.