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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