the seraglio topkapı sarayı

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seraglio
The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in a Turkish Muslim household
The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople

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.

{n} a house kept for women of pleasure
An inclosure; a place of separation
A brothel or place of debauchery
In it are also kept the females of the harem
An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts
living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
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
{i} harem, part of a Muslim house inhabited by the wives and concubines; Turkish palace
A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery
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