odalisque
/ˈoʊdlɪsk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "When the young Mauretanians were his guests in the little houses before the town gates, and he was of a good humour, it would come about that he displayed his odalisques as others would their jewels."
- "They grew fat, but successfully resisted the enticing odalisques with whom they were confronted."
- "Though I could see the titan odalisques and their garden and knew them to be no more than dream-stuff recalled, I could not escape from their fascination and the memory of the dream."
- "The Sector is borne in a padded Waggon, like some mechanickal Odalisque."
- "Three years later, she added three more odalisques to her collection. Among the works she purchased in 1937 was an ink study that gave her insight into one stage in the evolution of the 1928 painting."
Etymology
Borrowed from French odalisque, from Ottoman Turkish اوطهلق (odalık, “chambermaid”), from اوده (oda, “room”).
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: odalisque, اوطهلق
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈoʊdlɪsk/
- British English: /ˈəʊd(ə)lɪsk/