anderoon

The tent was tripartite, being formed of three main tops meeting in a centre: one was sacred to the women -- the gynekeion of the Greeks, the anderoon of the Persians: in the others were collected the whole faction of the dying man.

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Some even assert that the Shah's chief object in building the anderoon so high was to have the certainty of this awful doom ever present before its numerous inmates, the more easily to keep them in a submissive frame of mind.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

The square towers of the royal anderoon -- which the Shah professes to believe is the tallest dwelling-house in the world -- loom conspicuously skyward above the mass of indefinable mud buildings and walls that characterize the habitations of humbler folk, but perhaps happier on the whole than the fair occupants of that seven-storied gilded prison.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

Hundreds of women-wives, concubines, slaves, and domestics are understood to be dwelling within these palace walls in charge of sable eunuchs, and the fate of any female whose bump of discretion in an evil moment fails her, is to be hurled headlong from the summit of one of the anderoon towers -- such, at least, is the popular belief in Teheran; it may or may not be an exaggeration.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

A few days afterwards I went to see the Shah's half-sister, a beautiful girl of fifteen, who lived with her mother in an obscure part of the anderoon, neglected by the Shah and consequently by every one else.

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

Sedr Azim treats her as a European husband treats his wife; and she has no rivals in her anderoon.

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

We have sleeping-tents, nursery-tents, and my private sitting-room-tent, all enclosed in a high wall of canvas, and forming the anderoon.

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

On our return to the anderoon the Shah's mother made me observe that the walls of the court had been recently painted in fresco.

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

The number of the inmates of the anderoon belonging to this sovereign is estimated at several hundred.

Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

She has also the whole management of the Shah's anderoon; so that I should think she must have a good deal to occupy her mind, as the Shah has three principal wives, and eight or nine inferior ones.

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