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seraglio
A palace of a sultan.
The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
💬 Quotations
At these words he started up, and beheld—not his Sophia—no, nor a Circassian maid richly and elegantly attired for the grand Signior's seraglio.
(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.