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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

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

"The families will fight like fury, like eunuchs in a seraglio, to retain their status," predicted Scares.

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

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

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus

One bright morning in August, 1864, after a brief rest at Salt Lake, we left Brigham's seraglios for this new El Dorado.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various

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

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

Access to the seraglios was had by corresponding arbors leading from the palace.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

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

From Command by McFee, William




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