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Seraglio vs Gynacaeum - What's the difference?

seraglio | gynacaeum |

seraglio

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
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    • 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 .
  • The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.
  • A brothel or place of debauchery.
  • An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.

    • gynacaeum

    Not English

    Gynacaeum has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'gynacaeum':

    gymnasium, gynoecium, gynaeceum, gynaecium, gyneceum, gynecium