Definition of Seragleo
Seraglio, in its restricted sense applied in the East to a harem or
women's quarters in a royal household; the former residence of the sultan
of Turkey, occupies a beautiful site on the E. side of Constantinople, on
a projecting piece of land between the Golden Horn and the Sea of
Marmora, enclosing within its 3 m. of wall government buildings, mosques,
gardens, &c., chief of which is the harem, which occupies an inner
enclosure.
- Wikipedia
Se*ragl"io (?), n. [It.
serraglio, originally, an inclosure of palisades, afterwards
also, a palace, seraglio (by confusion with Per.
serāïa a palace, an entirely different word), fr.
serrare to shut, fr. LL. serra a bar for fastening
doors, L. sera. See Serry, Series.]
1. An inclosure; a place of separation.
[Obs.]
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell as in a
suburb, by themselves. I passed by the piazza Judea, where their
seraglio begins. Evelyn.
2. The palace of the Grand Seignior, or
Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself,
and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept
the females of the harem.
3. A harem; a place for keeping wives or
concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a
house of debauchery.
Se*ragl"io (?), n. [It.
serraglio, originally, an inclosure of palisades, afterwards
also, a palace, seraglio (by confusion with Per.
serāïa a palace, an entirely different word), fr.
serrare to shut, fr. LL. serra a bar for fastening
doors, L. sera. See Serry, Series.]
1. An inclosure; a place of separation.
[Obs.]
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell as in a
suburb, by themselves. I passed by the piazza Judea, where their
seraglio begins. Evelyn.
2. The palace of the Grand Seignior, or
Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself,
and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept
the females of the harem.
3. A harem; a place for keeping wives or
concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a
house of debauchery.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
SERAGLIO. A bawdy-house; the name of that part of the
Great Turk's palace where the women are kept.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- A seraglio is the sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in a Turkish Muslim household.
- An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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