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Webster 1913 Edition
Seraglio
Se-ragl′io
,Noun.
1.
An inclosure; a place of separation.
[Obs.]
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell as in a suburb, by themselves. I passed by the piazza Judea, where their
seraglio
begins. Evelyn.
2.
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.
3.
A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.
Webster 1828 Edition
Seraglio
SERAGLIO
,Noun.
Definition 2024
seraglio
seraglio
English
Noun
seraglio (plural seraglios)
- The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book V, chapter x
- At these words he started up, and beheld—not his Sophia—no, nor a Circassian maid richly and elegantly attired for the grand Signior's seraglio.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book V, chapter x
- The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.
- A brothel or place of debauchery.
- An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.