Seraglio vs Gynaeceum - What's the difference?
seraglio | gynaeceum |
The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
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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.
As nouns the difference between seraglio and gynaeceum
is that seraglio is the palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople while gynaeceum is alternative form of gynæceum|lang=en.seraglio
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 .