different between seraglio vs serail

seraglio

English

Etymology

From Italian serraglio, from Vulgar Latin *serr?culum, from a late form of Latin ser?re (lock up, close), from sera (lock, bolt). The Italian word was used (because of phonetic similarity) to translate Persian ????? (sar?y, lodgings, residence). Compare serai, serail.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /s???æljo?/, /s???æ?li?o?/

Noun

seraglio (plural seraglios)

  1. The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople.
  2. The sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines (odalisques) in a Turkish Muslim household.
  3. A brothel or place of debauchery.
  4. An interior cage or enclosed courtyard for keeping wild beasts.

Translations

Anagrams

  • gasolier, gear oils, girasole

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serail

English

Etymology

From Middle French sérail, from Italian seraglio.

Noun

serail (plural serails)

  1. (now rare) A seraglio.
    • 1990, Roy Porter, English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin 1991, p. 264:
      London teemed with brothels and other pleasure domes such as Mrs Hayes's serail in Pall Mall, whose floor show included a Tahitian “Love Feast’ between twelve nymphs and twelve youths, and naked dancing.

Anagrams

  • Alires, Israel, Isreal, Lieras, Sailer, Sal Rei, ariels, railes, realis, relais, resail, sailer, serial

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