Harem

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.

(2): ( n.) The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio.

Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]

Harem. See House .

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]

The apartment or suite of apartments in a Mohammedan's house for the female inmates and their attendants, and the name given to the collective body of them.

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