O`da`lisque" (?), n. [F., fr. Turk. odaliq chambermaid, fr. oda chamber, room.]

A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan.

[Written also odahlic, odalisk, and odalik.]

Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode. Tennyson.

 

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