Lexicographical Neighbors of Odalique
Literary usage of Odalique
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1858)
"this race from the first stroke to the last, the odalique being second; the Peri
was not class for her antagonists at all, but her crew made a plucky fight ..."
2. The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats by Mary Botham Howitt, Henry Hart Milman, John Keats (1853)
"... yet soft and low; White the neck, and round the arm; Small the hand, and soft
and warm ; Red the lip, and fair the cheek Of the favourite odalique ! ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"(F.,-Turk.) ' Sleek odalisques ;' Tennyson, Princess, ii. 63. — F. odali>que,
the same (Littre) ; better spelt odalique (Devic). ..."
4. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1858)
"... who is quoted as complaining that when he buys what Miss Pardoe calls " an
odalique," in Paris, he gets nothing but a bundle of clothes. ..."
5. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1858)
"The last observation has, it seems, been verified by the Dey of Algiers, who is
quoted as complaining that when he buys what Miss Pardoe calls " an odalique ..."
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