odalisk

He became infatuated with an odalisk who was a popular favorite at the

A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel S. G. Bayne

It stands in a commanding position on the Place Nouveau Riche overlooking the Casino and the odalisk erected by Edward VII in memory of his cure.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

It was a character of the sort that to any but an odalisk means eventual shame; to any woman of pride, you understand, eventually of necessity a broken heart.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

ZOE: _ (Murmuring singsong with the music, her odalisk lips lusciously smeared with salve of swinefat and rosewater) Schorach ani wenowach, benoith Hierushaloim.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

After all, the tiresome thing was, he did not want an odalisk, he did not want a slave.

Women in Love 1907

'Then why doesn't he marry an odalisk?' said Hermione in her mild sing-song, 'if it is that he wants.'

Women in Love 1907

On the sofa in the window Violet lay like a suburban odalisk, voluptuous, heavy-scented.

The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904

"Appearing to fix the ideal position of woman somewhere between that of an odalisk and a squaw!"

The Eternal Feminine 1900

I get twenty doldars for a real odalisk and fifteen for a bashi-bazouk.

Felix O'Day Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

As free in her language as that, the odalisk -- That is to say, that if I did not know my Hemerlingue to be as cowardly as he is fat -- After all, bah! let them say what they like.

The Nabob Alphonse Daudet 1868