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Seraglio vs Serail - What's the difference?

seraglio | serail |

As nouns the difference between seraglio and serail

is that seraglio is the palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople while serail is a seraglio.

seraglio

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
  • *
    • 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.

    • serail

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seraglio.
  • *, I.42:
  • *:What longing lust would not bee alaid, to see three hundred women at his dispose and pleasure, as hath the Grand Turke in his Seraille ?