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n. A large harem.

n. A sultan's palace. Also called serai.

n. The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.

n. The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in a Turkish Muslim household.

n. A brothel or place of debauchery.

n. An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.

n. An inclosure; a place of separation.

n. The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.

n. A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.

n. An inclosure; a place to which certain persons are confined, or where they are restricted within prescribed bounds.

n. A walled palace; specifically, the chief or official palace of the Sultan of Turkey at Constantinople. It is of great size, and contains government buildings, mosques, etc., as well as the sultan's harem.

n. A place for the seclusion of concubines; a harem; hence, a place of licentious pleasure.

n. living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

"Christian writers and readers are too apt to confound the seraglio with the harem, and to suppose that the former means the apartments belonging to the sultan's ladies; whereas the word seraglio, or rather _sernil_, represents the entire palace of which the harem, or females 'dwelling, is but a comparatively small portion."

living quarters    quarters   

inclosure    harem    palace   

harem    suzerainty    zenana    payd    historiographer