📚 noun • entry_id 34247
odalisque
/ˈəʊd(ə)lɪsk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
odalisca
A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio.
They grew fat, but successfully resisted the enticing odalisques with whom they were confronted.
When the young Mauretanians were his guests in the little houses before the town gates, and he was of a good humour, it would come about that he displayed his odalisques as others…
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