English to Zulu Meaning of seraglio - seraglio

Seraglio :

seraglio

noun

isigodlo

Seraglio :: seraglio Seraglios :: seraglios

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Definitions of seraglio in English

Noun(1) living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

Examples of seraglio in English

(1) The English traveler Charles Perry, in an attempt to describe his visit to Sa'dabad, ended up giving only a detailed account of one building, pondering whether to call it a kiosk or a seraglio .(2) Nor is it doubted by historians that Ibrahim the Mad had two hundred and eighty women of his seraglio sewn into sacks and cast into the Bosphorus.(3) One is immediately reminded of Fabrice's brief but clear description of the second court at Topkapi: ├ö├ç├┐People are admitted only into the 2'nd court of the seraglio , and are hindered from going further by a guard of black Eunuchs.├ö├ç├û(4) The walls of the Alexandria seraglio apparently carry large portraits of himself to the total of his ladies.(5) The luxurious air of the seraglio is made complete by a sensuous zither-like ├ö├ç├┐santir├ö├ç├û and gentle drumming in the background.(6) Yet Fabrice's ebullient remark to a different correspondent that ├ö├ç├┐a fine seraglio is being prepared at Adrianople, or in its neighborhood, for the King├ö├ç├û could also suggest a brand-new construction.(7) A seraglio of harem girls seemed to take unfathomable delight in passing my place of confinement.(8) What Natasha means, is that she has met some self confident women who don't conform to her own racist stereotypes of Muslim women, huddled away in some oriental seraglio .(9) The room, a moody cross between an opium den and a Byzantine seraglio , was upholstered at every turn in deep-red plush; there were acres of the stuff in the cushy front lounge.(10) This tyranny was exemplified through the image of the seraglio , where beautiful women were kept as ├ö├ç├┐slaves to the tyrant's lust.├ö├ç├û(11) Although foreigners frequently denoted many smaller summer palaces as seraglios , in the early eighteenth century the terminology was usually associated with Topkapi Palace.(12) The impression is that the lay-out of the whole area resembled that of the Seraglio in Constantinople, with palaces, barracks, and other royal buildings set in an area of parkland.

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Synonyms

Noun

1. harem ::

isigodlo

2. serail ::

serail

Different Forms

seraglio, seraglios

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