hareem
Americannoun
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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
Proud purists who know enough to pronounce harem "hareem" may have suspected that this picture was misleading.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Gezireh the hareem, save that its appointments are more costly, is much like those caravansaries which abound at our inland summer resorts.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
I went into his hareem, and liked his wife’s manners very much.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
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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