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seraglio

[si-ral-yoh, -rahl-] / sɪˈræl joʊ, -ˈrɑl- /


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But with the Prince Andrew imbroglio in the seraglio of Jeffrey Epstein, and with Harry’s run for the Hollywood Hills, it is clear that many in her family are not interested in moral authority.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2020

Mischievous mice, an exotic peacock, the Pasha's seraglio and even a curious monster from Where the Wild Things Are create a blissful return to childhood.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2012

Even in Mexico, at a kind of seraglio for impotent veterans, he finds little sympathy among his own crippled kind.

From Time Magazine Archive

A true Arabian Nights tale of 19th century Russia's subjugation of unruly Caucasus tribesmen, replete with high-bouncing feats of battlefield and seraglio.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oft doth reason, enthroned in the pillowed seraglio of the brain, hang back; whereas the flesh, which must walk abroad in the streets, finds its own temerity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Moreover, what does it all matter to us so long as our integrity is maintained, our seraglios remain intact, and our coffers are filled?

From In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Women, in Constantinople, are confined in seraglios for life, or shut up in their apartments.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox

With this confusion of ideas, he entered into the city, which he could not in the least recollect: the houses, the temples, the seraglios, appeared under a new form to him.

From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by L. (Laura) Valentine

The seraglios he had quitted in Singapore and Kobe and Rangoon were, in his own words, "a thing o' the past."

From Command by William McFee

Grétry, Mozart, Wieland, scarcely took their seraglios, pashas, bulbuls earnestly.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld




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