Serraglio

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

Alternative form of seraglio..

Example Sentences

For although (as hath bene ſaid) the Temple of Sancta Sophia, which he moſt vſually frequenteth, is not aboue a ſtones caſt from the out-moſt gate of the Serraglio, yet hath he not ſo few as a thousand horſe (beſides the archers of his guard and other footmen) in that ſhort proceſſion: […]

Here we ſaw certaine great Serraglios, exceeding high, and propt vp by buttreſſes.

When we reached the Babamayun-kapoussi, or the grand gate of the serraglio, we found the infantry of the imperial guard drawn up in lines on each side of the street, from the walls of the serraglio to the hippodrome, and the entrance of the imperial mosque of Achmet, where the Courbann-Bairam namaz was to be offered up by Mahmood and his court, to the one God and to the prophet Mahomet.

[…] desert: disputing in their shifts by night, candles in hand, in the Throne-room; telling each other fairytales; arming themselves with incomparable buffoonery for great adventures, moving the audience to limitless laughter over their efforts to catch a dove, acting as prime ministers, as admirals on ships, as turnkeys and sausage sellers, as heads of serraglios, and dyers and stableboys and philosophers are the four Masks of the Commedia, Truffaldino, (1) Tartaglia, Brighella and Pantaloon.

“I promised my wife not to swear before the Easter egg was blessed and eaten!” Farther on a boy asked us for a light; “Serraglios!” he said, winking at us, “Easter cigarettes!” There was nothing pious or bigoted about this mood. Rather it was an unconscious retreat to one’s loved ones, as if to test the solidarity of their affections, a feeling which went beyond its almost forgotten occasion.

[…] against the altar are « Scorpio », « Pisces », and « Capricorn »; in the outside façade « Aries », « Sagittarius », and along the cornice « Leo »; alongside, actually in the serraglio of the arch, is carved the « Sun », with the eagle at its feet and the python killed.

« present to the outer world a face as impassive and as suggestive of the concentration of privacy within as the blank walls of Eastern serraglios »

[…] arrived at the conclusion that women, at least in the Kabyle society, were not the oppressed, brow-beaten creatures that populated Western Man's dreams of harems and serraglios.

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