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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

Each bull has a seraglio of from 30 to 100 cows.

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

With this view he confiscated, on all sides, the property of his subjects; whilst his worthy mother stripped the seraglios she visited of the gems they contained.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford

And there are sultans and sultanas and seraglios existing in England under English forms.

From Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

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

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

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 plain perpendicular of the so mildly conventual fronts, masking blest seraglios of culture and leisure, irritates the imagination scarce less than the harem-walls of Eastern towns.

From A Passionate Pilgrim by Henry James




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