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Meanings of seraglio in English
Synonyms
Examples for "harem"
Examples for "harem"
1
Some of the scenes she witnessed in the harem cannot be described.
2
The lovers are united and the inmates of the harem set free.
3
The harem and the seraglio are simply the embodiment of this desire.
4
Queen Tuya came and said that Iset is moving from the harem.
5
There is something salutary, after all, in the training of the harem.
1
After the Ministers of State came a part of the royal hareem.
2
For it was inconceivable that he should now take Rosamund to his hareem.
3
By Allah, she is worthy to grace the Sultan's own hareem.
4
The women's palace-thehareem-whatmore is there to say?
5
And now the hareem-thathell, and Ben Aboo-thatlibertine!
1
The hungry people crowded the wall from the Seven Towers to Point Serail.
2
Stephanie was the author of the libretto of "Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail.")
3
Tell me-whichgave you most trouble, that or your opera 'Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail?'
4
Pursued thus, the galley, at length rounding Point Serail (Demetrius), turned into the harbor.
5
The Serail of Jerusalem is a Turkish edifice.
Usage of seraglio in English
1
The Mutsellim resides in a seraglio, on the banks of the river.
2
The harem and the seraglio are simply the embodiment of this desire.
3
He had not the faintest desire to start a seraglio in England.
4
A second chamber selected by the whips -a seraglio of eunuchs!
5
Lady Castlemaine had hitherto been the prime favourite in the King's seraglio.
6
For the rest, there is no trace of any oriental seraglio system.
7
My seraglio was ample, my choice was free, my appetite was keen.
8
Here, in the seraglio of the Church, we are all less than women.
9
A horsehair arm-chair seemed to be the sultan of the seraglio of chairs.
10
As for woman, you wish to keep her in the seraglio.
11
But the ladies of the king's seraglio were his principal customers.
12
A terrible fire broke out near the walls of the grand seignior's seraglio.
13
Never is this lugubrious handkerchief thrown into the seraglio without being picked up.
14
It was a seraglio that appealed to every eye, and fulfilled every fancy.
15
He is a pervert who has turned the convent into his private seraglio.
16
Charles, by comparison, was a mere dullard who turned Whitehall into a seraglio.
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