hareem
Americannoun
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From Time Magazine Archive
He is one of the few novelists on record who can spatter their pages with italicized words�jellabias, bassourabs, girbas, tohs, fil-fil, mehara, hareem, Bismillah!�without seeming unduly affected.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this case the head lady of the hareem has been a widow for some years, and is still wearing her black mourning dress.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by Hume-Griffith, A.
Yet some few lights of the hareem were not disposed to be extinguished altogether by considerations of etiquette, and passed hurriedly along, as though bent upon avoiding us and uncertain of our exact direction.
From Morocco by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)
He ordered also such as he chose of his women and his hareem, as his female slaves and his eunuchs, to fit themselves out.
From Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental by Tibbitts, Charles John
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