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Meanings of
odalisque
in English
A woman who cohabits with an important man, but who is not his wife.
concubine
courtesan
paramour
doxy
Usage of
odalisque
in English
1
She is a clothed
odalisque
,
an unreal being in the French countryside.
2
I have dreamed that I was an
odalisque
,
dear-aftersmoking, you know.
3
She looked less like a princess than an
odalisque
,
captured and resigned.
4
The
odalisque
had vanished in this chill and matter-of-fact housewife.
5
He felt the fresh delight and trembling limbs of the
odalisque
coming out of retreat.
6
To-morrow she may be setting up as an
odalisque
.
7
This revelation of the
odalisque
in his Rachel enchanted Louis, and incidentally it also enchanted Rachel.
8
Not Morenita, and not Montfériot, not Diaz himself, but Magda, the self-constituted
odalisque
,
was its author.
9
And finally by an
odalisque
,
who fills his goblet with the foaming infusion of malt and hops.
10
It is the pose of the
odalisque
.
11
All the Orient was immanent in her; she had the quiet, the resignation, the un-hope of the
odalisque
.
12
Alone with the girl, Sturm put on the airs of a Prussianized pasha condescending to a new
odalisque
.
13
In heart and spirit she was at his feet, an
odalisque
,
recognising and bowing down to her sultan.
14
This
odalisque
is very fair and stout, and some fair Alsatian damsel has evidently sat as the model.
15
And she saw him-how often!-goingin at the tent-door through which streamed light, to join the painted
odalisque
.
16
And then he caught sight of a familiar pair of gray eyes smiling over the white veil of an
odalisque
.
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odalisque
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
beautiful odalisque
arabian odalisque
clothed odalisque
constitute odalisque
eastern odalisque
More collocations
Odalisque
through the time