seraglio A seraglio refers to the apartments or rooms where a group of Turkish Muslim women live together, especially if they are a man's wives and concubines. In other words, a seraglio is a harem. Thanks to Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, this word will always retain a slot in English â despite its being merely an Italian loan from an originally Turkish word meaning Muslim women's quarters..
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