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odalisque [ode-a-lisk] Noun a female slave in a harem [Turkish ōdalik]
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Now look here, when Olympia was shown at the Salon, Zola--amid the jeers of the Philistines and the hisses of the pompiers, the academicians, and the public, Zola said: `I look forward to the day when Manet's picture will hang in the Louvre opposite the Odalisque of Ingres, and it will not be the Odalisque which will gain by comparison. As to their women, it is a little different: they cultivate beauty from childhood upwards, and may by care and training attain to a certain degree of excellence in that point, just like the oriental odalisques. He has sewn up ever so many odalisques in sacks and tilted them into the Nile. |
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odalisque - a woman slave in a harem