Seraglio

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Seraglio

the inmates of a harem, 1634; a house of women kept for debauchery—Johnson, 1755.

Examples : seraglio of the godly (i.e., a nunnery), 1672; of flattering lusts, 1711; of maids of honour, 1860; a cock and a seraglio of seven hens, 1773.

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