hareem
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Could she but get a place in the Royal hareem, it would be in the hands of God to make her the mother of the coming sultan.
From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Meakin, Budgett
"I'm turned out of the hareem," she said, apropos of the mention of him, "in disgrace."
From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
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.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
