Meaning of odalisque | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio.
   historical
2. A desirable or sexually attractive woman.

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Examples

“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 would their jewels.”

“They grew fat, but successfully resisted the enticing odalisques with whom they were confronted.”

“Though I could see⟳ the titan odalisques and their garden and knew them to be no more than dream-stuff recalled, I could not escape⟳ from their fascination and the memory of the dream⟳.”

“The Sector is borne in a padded Waggon, like⟳ some mechanickal Odalisque.”

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