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odalisque
Outside are shops and the ancient Roman hippodrome with an odalisque from Egypt.
From the post-gazette.com
Pictorial sensuousness was something one escaped toward-across the Atlantic, to an imagined Paris, home town of the Cartesian odalisque.
From the time.com
There is sexy balletic humor in a spoof of Arab amour that features sinuous ballerina Willy de la Bije as the most languid odalisque ever to scratch herself where it itches.
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Made last year, the voluptuous linear form reclines horizontally like a Moorish odalisque by Matisse or a sybaritic bather in one of Ingres'Turkish harem paintings.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Calendar Girls is harmless suburban fun with a heart, though the sight of Julia Hills lying like an odalisque among a tub of oranges does not fail to arouse some vestige at least of erotic feeling.
From the independent.co.uk
- A woman slave in a harem
- An odalisque (Turkish: Odalu0131k) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish harem, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan.
- Odalisque may refer to: *Odalisque - a female slave of a Turkish harem *Odalisque (novel) - a novel by Fiona McIntosh * Odalisque - part of Quicksilver (novel) by Neal Stephenson, later published as a separate noveln*Odalisque with Raised Arms - a painting by Henri Matissen*Odalisque (painting) ...
- The Odalisque is a famous 1885 painting by awarding Filipino painter and hero Juan Luna. It is one of Luna's so-called "Academic Salon portraits" that followed the standards of proper proportion and perspective, and realistic depictions with "an air of dignity and allure"...
- A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio; A desirable or sexually attractive woman
- (odalisques) female slaves; concubines
- (Turkish) From the word "oda" meaning room, it literally translates as "woman of the room". An odalisque was a (temporarily) favored one in the Grand Seraglio Turkish harem, who was given her own room. She was not officially elevated to Kadin (wife). She was a concubine. ...
