hareem
Americannoun
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From Time Magazine Archive
Ramadan took the hareem under his special and most respectful charge, and waited on us devotedly, but never raised his eyes to our faces, or spoke till spoken to.
From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
The only place we could find for them which would be hareem was a large room which we used as a wood-house.
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 A. Hume-Griffith
At the back of the sheykh's court is the stairway to the hareem, the entrance masked by a gayly colored curtain.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson
He had about ten or twelve in the hareem, among them his three little girls, and perhaps twenty men outside, Indians, and Arabs from Syria, I fancy.
From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
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