At these words he started up, and beheld—not his Sophia—no, nor a Circassian maid richly and elegantly attired for the grand Signior's seraglio.
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Seraglio
//səˈɹæljoʊ//
Synonyms for "seraglio" (6 found)
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12 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- сарай noun (palace)
- харем noun (palace)
Catalan
1 entries- serrall noun (palace)
Esperanto
1 entries- serajlo noun (palace)
French
1 entries- sérail noun (palace)
German
1 entries- Serail noun (palace)
Hungarian
1 entries- szeráj noun (palace)
Italian
1 entries- serraglio noun (palace)
Japanese
1 entries- 後宮 noun (palace)
Macedonian
1 entries- сарај noun (palace)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سرای noun (palace)
Polish
1 entries- seraj noun (palace)
Portuguese
1 entries- serralho noun (palace)
Romanian
1 entries- serai noun (palace)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sàraj noun (palace)
- са̀рај noun (palace)
Spanish
1 entries- serrallo noun (palace)
Swedish
1 entries- seralj noun (palace)
Turkish
1 entries- saray noun (palace)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
In 1936 [Charles] Schwab's agents approached the La Guardia administration in New York, hoping to interest the city in buying his mansion for the official residence of the mayor. […] But Fiorello La Guardia took great pride in the fact that he lived in a modest walkup in Lower New York. He ridiculed the idea of moving into the robber baron's seraglio, telling newsmen that the city much preferred having the tax revenue from the mansion.
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