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odalisque

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈəʊd(ə)lɪsk/Part of speech nounSorted adeiloqsuStarts with OEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a woman slave in a harem

Word origin

Borrowed from French odalisque, from Ottoman Turkish اوطهلق (odalık, “chambermaid”), from اوده (oda, “room”).

Used in a sentence

  • When the young Mauretanians were his guests in the little houses before the town gates, and he was of a good humour, it would come about that he displayed his odalisques as others would their jewels.
  • They grew fat, but successfully resisted the enticing odalisques with whom they were confronted.
  • Though I could see the titan odalisques and their garden and knew them to be no more than dream-stuff recalled, I could not escape from their fascination and the memory of the dream.

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