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• n  living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

• A pleasure dome he decrees, turning the top floor of his palace into a lurid seraglio and confining Siddhartha there, "ensnared by women skilled in erotic arts who were tireless .
• In the seraglio, however, sex was sometimes secondary to intrigue, and the queen mothers and chief eunuchs often ruled the roost as much as the rooster.
• Why would I want to exit the seraglio and enter the locker room? In a theater showing 70s porn, the actresses underwent their exertions, the actors achieved their workmanlike .

• harem
• hareem
• serail

News & Articles

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• Snapp Shots: Midsummer Mozart Festival a sheer pleasure
  Thirty-nine years ago, the great conductor George Cleve was relaxing with some friends over a few beers after they had finished a rehearsal of Mozart's opera, "The Abduction From The Seraglio.
  July 10, 2013 - Contra Costa Times

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• John Adams in The Australian
  Mozart was active at a period in Vienna when things oriental were extremely the rage,Adams says on the phone from his home in Berkeley, California. "Don't forget that he wrote an opera called The Abduction from the Seraglio. Oriental...