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- Dictionaryodalisque/ˈəʊdəlɪsk/
noun
- 1. a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey. historical
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An odalisque was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western European usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position, often in the setting of a harem. It was part of a fascina... Wikipedia