Serraglio

It must not be confounded with "Serraglio" = the Harem,

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Chamberlain entered the Serraglio and enquired for the King, but the women said, “Since yesterday we have not seen him.”

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Serraglio, after dismissing the Emirs and Wazirs, and lay down and slept awhile; and there sat at his head a slave girl fanning him, and at his feet a second rubbing and shampooing them.

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Then King Shahryar took brand in hand and repairing to the Serraglio slew all the concubines and their Mamelukes. 20 He also sware himself by a binding oath that whatever wife he married he would abate her maidenhead at night and slay her next morning to make sure of his honour;

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On the morrow the King went forth from his Serraglio and sat upon his throne, and the Lords of Estate stood about him, and the Emirs and Wazirs sat as was their wont on his right hand and on his left.

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“Send the lad to the Serraglio where he will talk with the women and soon set aside this bashfulness;” and, approving their counsel, gave orders accordingly.

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The two villages (pop. 9500) which go under the name of the Baths of Lucca are _Il Serraglio_ on the left bank, and _Corsena_ on the right bank of the Lima, near its junction with the Serchio.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

There are giraffes, lions, and all kinds of animals, which he had an opportunity of studying in the Serraglio of Florence.

Fra Bartolommeo Scott, Leader, 1837-1902 1881

Sitting now in the silence of the tomb, Sanctis recalled that day, when, towards the setting of the sun, he had strolled there by the water-wheels of the twelve disciples, and allowed the fate of an unknown man, declared a criminal by impartial judges, to cloud over for him the radiance of evening on the willowy Serraglio and chase away his peaceful thoughts of Virgil.

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

Then he took up the elder boy and she took up the younger and they went forth the palace; and Allah veiled them with the veil of His protection, so that they came safe to the outer gate which closed the entrance to the Queen's Serraglio.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855