Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as harem.

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  • noun living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

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Examples

  • The very word harem, the section of the house where the women dwell in Arabic, hareem, is derived from haram, forbidden.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • The very word harem, the section of the house where the women dwell in Arabic, hareem, is derived from haram, forbidden.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • The very word harem, the section of the house where the women dwell in Arabic, hareem, is derived from haram, forbidden.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Speaking of imperial, I had a taste of that when she took me, with the Prince and his hareem in tow, to a gala ball at Schonbrunn, where the Emperor and Empress condescended to mingle with Vienna's finest.

    Watershed 2010

  • "They say she keeps a hareem of muscular young bucks, primed with love-potions -"

    Fiancée 2010

  • Personally, I prefer it even to a Tashkent melon - and you know the proverb runs that the Caliph of the Faithful would give ten pearl-breasted beauties from his hareem for a single melon of Tashkent.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • What could be more exotic than Cha Cha from an honest-to-gosh hareem?

    Archive 2009-12-01 baikinange 2009

  • What could be more exotic than Cha Cha from an honest-to-gosh hareem?

    Love them Pyramids! baikinange 2009

  • The former alternative leads either to a romantic organisation of society in which men will live and fight and die for wonderful, beautiful, exaggerated creatures, or it leads to the hareem.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • “The Shah of Persia,” a mellifluous voice announced, “contemplates an increment of his hareem.”

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

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