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Definition of Seraglio
1. Noun. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
Definition of Seraglio
1. n. An inclosure; a place of separation.
Definition of Seraglio
1. Noun. The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople. ¹
2. Noun. The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in a Turkish Muslim household. ¹
3. Noun. A brothel or place of debauchery. ¹
4. Noun. An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Seraglio
1. a harem [n -GLIOS] - See also: harem
Medical Definition of Seraglio
1. 1. An inclosure; a place of separation. "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. Origin: It. Serraglio, originally, an inclosure of palisades, afterwards also, a palace, seraglio (by confusion with Per. Seraia a palace, an entirely different word), fr. Serrare to shut, fr. LL. Serra a bar for fastening doors, L. Sera. See Serry, Series. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seraglio
Literary usage of Seraglio
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Persian Letters by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, John Davidson, Edouard de Beaumont (1892)
"I kiss your feet, most noble lord; and beg you to confide in my zeal, my experience,
and my old age. The seraglio at Ispahan, the 5th of the first moon of ..."
2. Sketches of Turkey in 1831 and 1832 by James Ellsworth De Kay (1833)
"Here commence the sea-walls of the city, which extend to seraglio Point, a distance
of six miles. They are about thirty feet high, with battlements on the ..."
3. Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman (1899)
"Near the further end of this division of the seraglio, in a place called the ...
Beyond this third division of the seraglio,—separated from it by a massive ..."
4. Diary of an Idle Woman in Constantinople by Frances Elliot (1893)
"THE Point of the seraglio, with its mass of dark cypresses and small domes ...
Ry the Point of the seraglio have sailed vessels of every nation of the world ..."
5. Constantinople by Edmondo De Amicis (1896)
"This is the outer enclosure of the seraglio. Properly speaking, what is meant by
the seraglio is only that part which occupies the summit of the hill, ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1858)
"ALTERATION OF LIGHT AT seraglio POINT, SEA OF MARMORA, CONSTANTINOPLE. Official
information has been received at this office that the Director of Lights for ..."
7. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1817)
"... modern City — Imperial Armoury—Vase of the Byzantine Emperors—Description of
the four principal Sultanas—Interior of the seraglio—Sultan's Kiosk—CHAREM, ..."
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