hareems

The former is more frequented by the Greek and other Christian populations, while the latter is chiefly resorted to by the higher classes among the Turks and the veiled ladies of their hareems, and is often visited by the sultan himself.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

I have conversed with several European ladies who had visited hareems, and they have all confessed their inability to convince the Eastern wives of the unhappiness or hardship of their state.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

Here little sheds of roadside cafés alternate with smart modern villas; ragged fellâheen on jaded donkeys trot side by side with elegant attachés on high-stepping Arabs; while tourists in hired carriages, Jew bankers in unexceptionable phaetons, veiled hareems in

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

This opens a door for illegal supplies, children born of slaves and others kidnapped being thus disposed of for hareems.

Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886

Nor is it a privilege commonly extended to European women to be received into the hareems of the high-class and wealthy Moors, although lady missionaries have abundant opportunities for making the acquaintance of the women of the poorer classes, especially when medical knowledge and skill afford a key.

Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886

How many church towers in Spain were built for the call of the muédhdhin, and how many houses had their foundations laid for hareems!

Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886

When there is no second floor, but more than one court, the women's apartments -- hareems, harem or haram -- are usually in the second court; otherwise they form a separate building within the general enclosure, or are above on the first floor.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Great Britain was responsible for the existence of at least nine millions of slaves in India, many of them brought by Hindoo merchants as well as Arabs from Eastern Africa to fill the hareems of

Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

'The King hath four hareems -- one for the stalwart women from the mountains to the north, one for the dark and furtive jungle women, one for the desert women that have wandering souls and pine in Babbulkund, and one for the princesses of his own kith, whose brown cheeks blush with the blood of ancient Pharaohs and who exult with Babbulkund in her surpassing beauty, and who know nought of the desert or the jungle or the bleak hills to the north.

Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

; the velvet slippers embroidered with gold and beads and seed-pearls are for wealthy hareems, and are sold at prices varying from five shillings to five pounds the pair.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891