hareem
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
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 Hume-Griffith, A.
I send you my long plaits by Alick, for I had my hair cut short as it took to falling out by handfuls after my fever, and moreover it is more convenient Turkish hareem fashion.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
Dr. Hume-Griffith’s Study in Mosul Our Drawing-Room in Julfa If there happens to be only one boy in the hareem, he becomes almost like a little god to all the women folk.
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.
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