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Meanings of odalisque in English

A woman who cohabits with an important man, but who is not his wife.

Synonyms
Examples for "concubine"
Examples for "concubine"
1
Keturah is spoken of as a concubine in I Chronicles i, 32.
The Woman's Bible
2
This is the lutanist of the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil and his pet concubine.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09
3
And Epha the concubine of Caleb bore Haran, and Mosa, and Gezez.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
4
She could either marry her concubine or Monsieur Philippot or anyone else.
The Guardian
5
I was once a concubine, and now I am a ruling Duchess.
The Winds of Dune
1
And the monk touched with his lips the forehead of the courtesan.
Thais
2
So thinks the understanding which is then the courtesan of the will.
Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence
3
This fine pleasantry made the courtesan laugh, and Jehan left the room.
Notre-Dame de Paris
4
She was as humble as a courtesan who has fallen in love.
Massimilla Doni
5
Gentle courtesy and manners impress a courtesan by reason of the novelty.
The Secrets of the German War Office
1
Question 2: Turns out Mark's would-be paramour was also a part-time actress.
Reuters
2
Defy me, and I slay you in the sight of your paramour.'
Vittoria — Complete
3
A second murdered the paramour and spared his wife, and so on.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
4
Are you telling me that your latest paramour is twice your age?
Impossible
5
Tatiana and her paramour would pay for what they'd done to Velimai.
Blood Rights
1
A doxy, a drab, too dumb-whorish even to be a successful whore.
The Book of Skulls
2
Of course I mean by orthodoxy all that don't agree with my doxy.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
3
His aim is to recruit her as his travelling doxy.
Speaks the Nightbird
4
He has hid away, dancing his doxy on his knee.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
5
That pompous old fellow Craike likes to be whacked about by some old doxy.
Sovereign
Usage of odalisque in English
1
She is a clothed odalisque, an unreal being in the French countryside.
The Guardian
2
I have dreamed that I was an odalisque, dear-aftersmoking, you know.
Dope
3
She looked less like a princess than an odalisque, captured and resigned.
The Golem and the Jinni
4
The odalisque had vanished in this chill and matter-of-fact housewife.
The Price of Love
5
He felt the fresh delight and trembling limbs of the odalisque coming out of retreat.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
6
To-morrow she may be setting up as an odalisque.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
7
This revelation of the odalisque in his Rachel enchanted Louis, and incidentally it also enchanted Rachel.
The Price of Love
8
Not Morenita, and not Montfériot, not Diaz himself, but Magda, the self-constituted odalisque, was its author.
Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes
9
And finally by an odalisque, who fills his goblet with the foaming infusion of malt and hops.
Caught in the Net
10
It is the pose of the odalisque.
The Irish Times
11
All the Orient was immanent in her; she had the quiet, the resignation, the un-hope of the odalisque.
Those Who Smiled, and Eleven Other Stories
12
Alone with the girl, Sturm put on the airs of a Prussianized pasha condescending to a new odalisque.
Red Masquerade: Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter
13
In heart and spirit she was at his feet, an odalisque, recognising and bowing down to her sultan.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
14
This odalisque is very fair and stout, and some fair Alsatian damsel has evidently sat as the model.
Caught in the Net
15
And she saw him-how often!-goingin at the tent-door through which streamed light, to join the painted odalisque.
Bella Donna: A Novel
16
And then he caught sight of a familiar pair of gray eyes smiling over the white veil of an odalisque.
The Fortieth Door
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Odalisque through the time