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What (who) is ODALISQUE - definition
FEMALE SLAVE OR CONCUBINE IN AN OTTOMAN SERAGLIO
Odalık; Odalik
![''A Reclining Odalisque'', painted by [[Gustave Léonard de Jonghe]], c. 1870](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gustave Léonard de Jonghe - The Afternoon Siesta.jpg?width=200 "''A Reclining Odalisque'', painted by [[Gustave Léonard de Jonghe]], c. 1870")
![Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]], [[Grande Odalisque]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814.jpg?width=200 "Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]], [[Grande Odalisque]]")
Odalisque
·noun A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan.
odalisque
['??d(?)l?sk]
¦ noun historical a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey.
Origin
C17: from Fr., from Turk. odalik, from oda 'chamber' + lik 'function'.
Odalisque
An odalisque () was a chambermaid] or a female attendant in a Turkish [[seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position, often in the setting of a harem.
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Odalisque
An odalisque (Ottoman Turkish: اوطهلق, Turkish: odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position, often in the setting of a harem.
Examples of use of ODALISQUE
1. The most expensive lot, the sketch entitled Odalisque, was sold for 473,000.
2. Luke gazed at her as she stretched out like an odalisque.
3. Genevieve Laporte, now 7', left just before the start of the auction at which "Odalisque", a 1'51 sketch of her lying naked on a bed, was bought by Paris‘s Picasso Museum for 473,000 euros including costs.