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SERAGLIO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does seraglio mean?
• SERAGLIO (noun)
The noun SERAGLIO has 1 sense:
1. living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
Familiarity information: SERAGLIO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
hareem; harem; seraglio; serail
Hypernyms ("seraglio" is a kind of...):
living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)
Context examples
"I'll not stand you an inch in the stead of a seraglio," I said; so don't consider me an equivalent for one.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Is she original? Is she piquant? I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle- eyes, houri forms, and all!"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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