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Definition of Odalisk
1. a female slave in a harem [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Odalisk
Literary usage of Odalisk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The People of Turkey: Twenty Years Residence Among Bulgarians, Greek by John Elijah Blunt (1878)
"... of Good Fortune— Ceremonies Attending the Sultan's Selection of an odalisk—A
Slave seldom sees the Sultan more than Once—Consequent Loss of Dignity and ..."
2. Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography by Albert Allis Hopkins, Henry Ridgely Evans (1901)
"When the odalisk is to vanish and the caliph to appear he slips in from the board
on the outside, while the odalisk takes her place on the board behind the ..."
3. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"She would create a disturbance. You know what a head she has—a volcano !
And consider, my friend, that at present she is a veritable odalisk. ..."
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