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Odalisque

noun

(Written also odahlic, odalisk, and odalik)

A woman slave in a harem.

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"Odalisque" Quotes from Famous Books

... ticket, while Lichonin took to pacing the cabinet back and forth. He had already looked over all the pictures on the walls: Leda with the swan, and the bathing on the shore of the sea, and the odalisque in a harem, and the satyr, bearing a naked nymph in his arms; but suddenly a small printed placard, framed and behind glass, half covered by a portiere, attracted his attention. It was the first time that ...

— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin

... Madame Victoria de Poutet; and if you now look at her you will comprehend why that refined half-Turk Thugut, as well as the mad rake Count Lehrbach, are both in love with her, for she is more beautiful than the loveliest odalisque and the ...

— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach

... was verily her master. She knew it, and he know it, as that look of his told her. Vain to play her part of languid indifference—vain to struggle against her bondage. In heart and spirit she was at his feet, an odalisque, recognising and bowing down ...

— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon

Words linked to "Odalisque" : concubine, courtesan, paramour, doxy