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seraglios

seraglios is the plural of seraglio.

Meaning of seraglio

Noun

seraglio (plural seraglios)

  1. A palace of a sultan.
    1. 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.1749, Henry Fielding, chapter X, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V
  2. (by figurative extension) A profligate or decadent residence of a rich person.
    • In 1936 [Charles] Schwab's agents approached the La Guardia administration in New York, hoping to interest the city in buying his mansion for the official residence of the mayor. […] But Fiorello La Guardia took great pride in the fact that he lived in a modest walkup in Lower New York. He...1988, Mark Reutter, Sparrows Point: Making Steel, Summit Books/Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 287–288
  3. The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.
  4. A brothel or place of debauchery.
  5. An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.

Questions about seraglios

What is seraglios the plural of?
Seraglios is the plural of seraglio.

Words near seraglios in the dictionary

  1. Serafinis
  2. Serafino
  3. Serafinos
  4. serafins
  5. seraglio
  6. seraglios
  7. serai
  8. Seraiki
  9. serail
  10. serails
  11. Seraing

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