hareem
Americannoun
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Proud purists who know enough to pronounce harem "hareem" may have suspected that this picture was misleading.
From Time Magazine Archive
He hastened to Tripoli bringing his sister, as he being a man, could not be admitted to a Moslem hareem.
From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)
The mother used to take him to visit an officer’s wife who had been brought up in the hareem of the Pasha’s mother.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
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
Occidental travellers are always curious about the hareem.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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