haremlik
(ˈhɛərəm-, həˈriːmlɪk)
[Turk., f. harem + -lik place.]
= harem 1.
| 1920 Blackw. Mag. Nov. 661/2 High above their bench and entered from the Haremlik, is an iron grille or cage, in which the Padishah could overhear unseen his Ministers' deliberations. 1936 N. M. Penzer Harēm i. 16 Relations with European powers soon gave rise to the coining of a word that would embrace not only the harēmlik and the serāmlik but the entire Royal buildings as a whole... The word seraglio was chosen. 1941 Archit. Rev. XC. 101/2 The houses were divided vertically into two parts—the Haremlik or women's quarters, and the Selamlik for the men. |