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.
On this harem he spent a hundred million francs, or twenty million dollars.