harem
后宫,后院,后花园,后庭
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- : the part of a Muslim palace or house reserved for the residence of women.
- : the women in a Muslim household, including the mother, sisters, wives, concubines, daughters, entertainers, and servants.
- : Animal Behavior. a social group of females, as elephant seals, accompanied or followed by one fertile male who denies other males access to the group.
- : Facetious: Sometimes Offensive. a group of women associated in any way with one man or household: I really resent it when our boss refers to us as his harem, though he's trying to be funny.
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He discussed how, during his first meeting with his now-longtime intimacy coach, he brought up the possibility of having a harem of beautiful women to travel with and care for.
Other species have sex-specific mating and courtship strategies, like harem defense by male gorillas, or mating dances.
But when she opened the door, a harem of toned and dreaded hip-hop dancers were lounging on couches staring at her.
Jillian Lauren is the author of The New York Times bestseller Some Girls: My Life in a Harem.
Three years ago, fashion would have labeled these the new harem pant, but now that moment is over.
Mitchell is also a fundamentalist Mormon who had his eye on the then-14-year-old Smart to be the first of a harem of wives.
Harem pants were a well-tailored sport jacket compared to jeggings.
A harem's a bo'd'n-house, I reck'n. Mos' likely dey has rackety times in de nussery.
When she stepped past the nodding eunuchs who were standing guard at the harem entrance, she felt a little quiver.
I shall in time grow sleepy, fat, and in a poor way contented; for such is the manner of the harem.
When Iftikhar returned to El Halebah, the fire had utterly destroyed the wing of the palace containing the harem.