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Odalisque   Listen
noun
Odalisque  n.  (Written also odahlic, odalisk, and odalik)  A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. "Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode."






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"Odalisque" Quotes from Famous Books



... found there this lady, who introduced herself to me as 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 ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach

... pretty little Odalisque, I know you want to dance and frisk And play at hide and seek with me; And yet, ...
— Little People: An Alphabet • T. W. H. Crosland

... a large and free imagination, art dwindles into an epicene odalisque, a faded minion of pleasure in a perfumed garden. It becomes the initiatory word of an exclusive Rosicrucian order. It becomes the amulet of an affected superiority, the signet ring ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys

... be no more than fair game, in Sturm's understanding, and a source of supercilious amusement but thinly veiled or not at all. Alone with the girl, Sturm put on the airs of a Prussianized pasha condescending to a new odalisque. ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance

... of a poet would appear to be a sort of male odalisque, singing or piano-playing a kind of spiced ideas, second-hand reminiscences, or toying late hours at entertainments, in rooms stifling with fashionable scent. I think I haven't seen a new-published, healthy, bracing, simple lyric in ten years. Not long ago, there were ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman



Words linked to "Odalisque" :   paramour, concubine



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