odalisque
IPA: ˈoʊdʌɫˈɪsk
noun
- (historical) A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio.
- A desirable or sexually attractive woman.
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Examples of "odalisque" in Sentences
- UP Pompeii: UK girl taken - to be turned into an "odalisque"
- "odalisque", it is not only white girls that are taken, many from India and Sri Lanka are also taken
- If "odalisque" had been what Ray called an objectionable word, he would have thrown the picture out in the first place.
- Whether Lalla Rookh, Larry Rourke, the Madonna Irlanda, or Mademoiselle O'Murphy, the Irish odalisque is no paradox or oxymoron.
- "Olympia," a contemporary odalisque propped on silken pillows, with a maid bearing flowers and a black cat in attendance, was accepted in 1865.
- In "Feeling me" (2004), she shows herself naked, posed as an odalisque against a black background with her husband's hand (all we see of him) resting on her distended belly.
- An elongated odalisque and a pair of unexpectedly spontaneous studies for the voluptuous fantasy "The Turkish Bath" remind us that distinctions between Romanticism and Neo-Classicism may be irrelevant.
- Similarly, Boucher's model for an odalisque is not an actual Circassian, Georgian, or Abkhasian woman (as an odalisque in Turkey likely would have been) (Croutier 30); instead she is from Ireland, a not quite as foreign European colony, and the fantasy is safely controlled.
- A further ironic implication of Farrell's, Boucher's, and Moore's use of the imagery of the odalisque is that the signification of "odalisque" as concubine is itself a projection of the European mind, since its original Turkish meaning is simply that of "'woman of the room [oda],' implying a general servant status" (Croutier 30-32).
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