seraglios
- plural of seraglio.
Example Sentences
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Whilst encamped here the united seraglios of Dost Mahommed and Jubber Khān passed in front of our tents, on their way to Kābul.
From A Peep into Toorkisthhan by Burslem, Rollo Gillespie
Women, in Constantinople, are confined in seraglios for life, or shut up in their apartments.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus
With this view he confiscated, on all sides, the property of his subjects; whilst his worthy mother stripped the seraglios she visited of the gems they contained.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
Grétry, Mozart, Wieland, scarcely took their seraglios, pashas, bulbuls earnestly.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul
With this confusion of ideas, he entered into the city, which he could not in the least recollect: the houses, the temples, the seraglios, appeared under a new form to him.
From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by Valentine, L. (Laura)
