seraglio
IPA: sˈɛrʌgɫioʊ
noun
- A palace of a sultan.
- The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
- (by figurative extension) A profligate or decadent residence of a rich person.
- The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.
- A brothel or place of debauchery.
- An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.
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Examples of "seraglio" in Sentences
- Racine also develops several romantic subplots in the seraglio.
- Juan, still dressed as a woman, is taken to the overcrowded seraglio.
- And reading the article it says the seraglio was protected by the castle.
- The Turks advanced and built in the 19th Century also a seraglio in Kelcyra.
- Hec pulls back the heavy curtain on his seraglio and crooks a finger at Fay.
- In fact, the harem was the section of the palace that housed the sultan’s family and was known as the seraglio.
- The seraglio is a vast inclosure, occupying nearly the entire site of the ancient city of Byzantium, and embracing a circumference of five miles.
- "Well, yes, I think so," said Jack; "dancing Circassian girls and the seraglio was the topic of the conversation, unless I am wandering in my mind."
- Manon Baletti, who was too happy to have had an opportunity of spewing her affection for me; and her joy was full when 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.
- Afterwards I went to sup with Manon Baletti, who was too happy to have had an opportunity of spewing her affection for me; and her joy was full when 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.
- Christian writers and readers are too apt to confound the seraglio with the harem, and to suppose that the former means the apartments belonging to the sultan's ladies; whereas the word seraglio, or rather _sernil_, represents the entire palace of which the harem, or females 'dwelling, is but a comparatively small portion.
- The luscious passion of the seraglio is the only one almost that is gratified here to the full; but it is blended so with the surly spirit of despotism in one of the parties, and with the dejection and anxiety which this spirit produces in the other, that, to one of my way of thinking, it cannot appear otherwise than as a very mixed kind of enjoyment.
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