< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
ODALISQUE, a slave-woman who is a member of an oriental harem, especially one in the harem or seraglio of the sultan of Turkey. The word is the French adaptation of the Turkish ōdaliq, formed from ōdah, chamber or room in a harem.
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