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Definition of Harems
1. harem [n] - See also: harem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harems
Literary usage of Harems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"The bulls play only a secondary part in the formation of harems. ... The size of
the harems, therefore, has of itself but little to do with the question of ..."
2. The American in Egypt: With Rambles Through Arabia Petra︠e︡a and the Holy by James Ewing Cooley (1843)
"harems of the Patriarchs. — Seraglio of the Sultan, and his hundred Wives.— Harem
of Mehemet Ali, and its Dissolution. — Banishment of Egyptian Prostitutes, ..."
3. New Egypt by Amédée Baillot de Guerville (1905)
"NATIVE VILLAGE CHAPTER X harems AND THE WOMAN IN EGYPT Al Vista ... woman in
Egypt—The harems—Europe's ideas of them— The real Mussulman ..."
4. The Memories of Rose Eytinge: Being Recollections & Observations of Men by Rose Eytinge (1905)
"The life in the harems sometimes discloses tragedies soul-sickening in their
secret horror and in the utter inability of any power to avenge them. ..."
5. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"While Greece looked to the East, and subjected her women to some of those customs
which characterized the harems of Babylon, Rome was essentially Western, ..."
6. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"... a flower, and a dainty lace handkerchief — The Khedive orders a wedding to
amuse the Empress Eugenic — Divorce — harems (pronounced ..."
7. In the Palaces of the Sultan by Anna Bowman Dodd (1903)
"IV harems AND THE " KAIF" There are still enough harems throughout Turkey
sufficiently equipped with a plurality of wives to satisfy the most exacting of ..."
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