se·ra·glio /səˈræl(ˌ)jo, ˈrɑl-/
 後宮;妻妾所居之處


 Se·ragl·io n.
 1. An inclosure; a place of separation. [Obs.]
    I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell as in a suburb, by themselves. I passed by the piazza Judea, where their seraglio begins.   --Evelyn.
 2. The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.
 3. A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.

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 seraglio
      n : living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female
          relatives in a Muslim household [syn: harem, hareem,
          serail]