Definitions for odalisque

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odalisque o·da·lisque

Spelling: [ohd-l-isk]

IPA: /ˈoʊd l ɪsk/

Odalisque is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 439 anagrams from letters in odalisque (adeiloqsu).

Definitions for odalisque

noun

1. a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially in that of the sultan of Turkey.
2. (initial capital letter) any of a number of representations of such a woman or of a similar subject, as by Ingres or Matisse.

Origin of odalisque

1675-85; French, alteration of earlier odalique (with -s- perhaps from -esque -esque) Turkish odalιk concubine, equivalent to oda room + -lιk noun suffix of appurten

Examples for odalisque

An odalisque in the seraglio can love the Sultan with all her might.

Underneath the picture was printed the title, "The odalisque."

This had been begun forty years before, at the time of the early “Bathers” and “odalisque.”

Sickly perfumes, as from the fan of an odalisque, swept over them.

The odalisque had vanished in this chill and matter-of-fact housewife.

I have dreamed that I was an odalisque, dear—after smoking, you know.

To his surprise he found that it was not there; the odalisque had taken it.

The odalisque arrived last night, and I am in a great quandary.

I always thought a pagoda was a sort of odalisque—isn't that right?

The odalisque had anchored in the bay late on the previous night.