seraglio

How To Use seraglio In A Sentence

• What Natasha means, is that she has met some self confident women who don't conform to her own racist stereotypes of Muslim women, huddled away in some oriental seraglio.
• The English traveler Charles Perry, in an attempt to describe his visit to Sa'dabad, ended up giving only a detailed account of one building, pondering whether to call it a kiosk or a seraglio.
• The luscious passion of the seraglio is the only one almost that is gratified here to the full; but it is blended so with the surly spirit of despotism in one of the parties, and with the dejection and anxiety which this spirit produces in the other, that, to one of my way of thinking, it cannot appear otherwise than as a very mixed kind of enjoyment. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
• He points out the shimmering red and gold curtains lining the kitchen door, a manifestation of the seraglio theme currently in vogue. THE SAVAGE GIRL
• The fops and dandies had no interest in war and concentrated instead on their seraglios.
• At the end of the day they were exhausted as they had never been; but they had an ease and satiety, like late leavers from a seraglio. COUP D'ETAT
• At the end of the day they were exhausted as they had never been; but they had an ease and satiety, like late leavers from a seraglio. COUP D'ETAT
• Although foreigners frequently denoted many smaller summer palaces as seraglios, in the early eighteenth century the terminology was usually associated with Topkapi Palace.
• The two women were simply aiding and abetting each other to disband the Seraglio. HUMAN VOICES
• In fact, the harem was the section of the palace that housed the sultan’s family and was known as the seraglio. The Thieves of Darkness