Boudoir vs Harem - What's the difference?
boudoir | harem |
The private part of an Arab household. In traditional Arab culture, this part of the household was forbidden to male strangers.
A group of women, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, sea elephants.
As nouns the difference between boudoir and harem
is that boudoir is a woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom while harem is harem.boudoir
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Usage notes
Strictly refers only to a woman’s room, but sometimes used informally or humorously by men to refer to their inner sanctum, as in (The Big Sleep) (1939), by American writer (Raymond Chandler), where (Philip Marlowe) (the hero, a man) says (p. 53): :“Tut, tut,” I said. “Come into my boudoir .”