Deriving from a Turkish word for a maidservant, what French name is given to a female slave in a harem?
Ottoman Imperial Harem in the face, almost provoking an international incident. The visit of the Empress, however, did cause a dress reform in the harem by making Western fashion popular among the harem women, who dressed according to Western fashion ever after. For the perpetuation and service of the Ottoman Dynasty, beautiful and intelligent slave girls were either captured in war, recruited within the empire, or procured from neighbouring countries to become imperial court ladies ("Cariyes"). Odalisque, a word derived from the Turkish "oda", meaning chamber: thus connoting odalisque to mean chamber girl or attendant, was not a term synonymous with concubine; however,
A Night in a Moorish Harem A Night in a Moorish Harem A Night in a Moorish Harem is an erotic novella published in 1896 under the pseudonym "Lord George Herbert". It is written in the first person in the persona of a shipwrecked British sailor, recounting the night he spent in a Moroccan harem with nine concubines of different nationalities. The literary topos of the harem is a typical example of Western literary orientalism. In December 1923, two New York booksellers, Maurice Inman and Max Gottschalk, were arrested for selling "" and convicted in March 1924. However, by 1930, a prosecution in Chicago for selling