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
I was taken into the hareem, welcomed and regaled, and invited to the festival of Seyd Abd er-Racheem, the great saint of Keneh.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
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.
Frequently, however, the bad-tempered guardians of the hareem commit outrages on the persons of real or supposed aggressors in this way, and from these even members of the foreign embassies have not always been exempt.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
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