Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
seraglio .
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- noun A
seraglio .
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- noun living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think you ` re good but i don ` t see Kev the serail published in the Sunday Times
Dull Husband in the South ( of London) Newmania 2007
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What dues did Hillary pay, aside from standing by a serail lothario?
"Every woman I know was in high hysteria over [Sarah Palin]." Ann Althouse 2008
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When I first heard about this show I was afraid the host of David Fisher would interfere with the whole serail killer angle, but boy was I wrong!
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When we go and see him, that Irish Jew courier, whom I have before had the honor to describe, looks up from the novel which he is reading in the ante-room, and says, “Mon maitre est au divan,” or, “Monsieur trouvera Monsieur dans son serail,” and relapses into the Comte de Montecristo again.
Our Street 2006
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In a small hut or stable of the serail of Orfa I found nine old men.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892
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Assassin whose serail, palace, council chamber, it washes; Cairo -- but the Plague shuts out all other thoughts; Jerusalem -- but
Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake William Tuckwell 1874
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I have sometimes heard, that it is not bigger than the serail here, gardens and all? '
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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'They say Alroy gives a grand banquet in the serail to-night, and toasts his harlot' mid the thunderbolts.
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Through the broad arch that led into the gardens of the serail, the moonlight fell upon the tall figure and the upraised arm of the priest;
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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The site of these mighty capitals is almost erased from the map of the modern traveller; but tribute and traffic have also ceased to sustain even the dilapidated serail of the once omnipotent
Sketches Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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