Selamlik

The Selamlik was a large handsome room filled with men, both with and without turbans, who had come either to solicit a favour or a post, or to press on some private business.

In the Track of the Troops 1859

Pasha's "Selamlik" or "Place of Salutations," in order that he might see how business matters were transacted in Turkey.

In the Track of the Troops 1859

We witnessed the Selamlik ceremony of the Sultan's weekly visit for prayers to the Mosque Hamedieh Jami, which stands adjacent to the grounds of Yildiz Kiosk.

Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland Tatlow, Joseph 1920

Sultan driving to the Selamlik every Friday there is visible now only one of the carriage horses and the fragments of a cavalryman.

The Patient Observer And His Friends Simeon Strunsky 1913

Tired at last, and ready to cry with fatigue and disappointment, she sat down by the red brick wall, leaning her chin on her hand and gazing up towards the windows of the Selamlik, which could only be seen in portions here and there through a leafy screen of plane-tree branches.

Six Women Victoria Cross 1910

But Ahmed loved at that time with his whole soul a Turkish woman, and she was to give him shortly a second child, and for fear of disturbing her peace of mind Ahmed remained in the Selamlik, and would not visit his other wives, nor send for Dilama, though his eyes, like the others, noted her growing beauty day by day.

Six Women Victoria Cross 1910

She followed the slave with unelastic steps, and her brain full of heavy thoughts; they passed the women's apartments and went on to the Selamlik and to the room of Ahmed, that looked out with unscreened windows into the cool, deep green of the garden.

Six Women Victoria Cross 1910

He sent for me twice, and, besides the audience at the Selamlik, had us to a state dinner given in our honour at the Haremlik.

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

It was useless to ask the Khedive's intervention -- Ismail dared not go against Selamlik in this.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Had he not flogged an Arab to death with his own hand, the day before Fielding's and Dicky's arrival, and had he not tried to get this same Arab's daughter into his harem -- this Selamlik

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897