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Recent Examples of seraglio
Kendall also participates in a toga party and is entertained by a provocative belly dancer in a male seraglio.
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J. Hoberman, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Despite Miller’s visual panache — when’s the last time a seraglio was depicted on the big screen? — these anecdotes are ultimately as unsatisfying as Campion’s Dog.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 Sep. 2022
The film, which was to be called In the Sultan’s Power, involved a dashing American traveler who rescues a young Frenchwoman from the seraglio of a diabolical Turkish nobleman.
—Longreads, 15 May 2018
J. Hoberman, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Despite Miller’s visual panache — when’s the last time a seraglio was depicted on the big screen? — these anecdotes are ultimately as unsatisfying as Campion’s Dog.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 Sep. 2022
The film, which was to be called In the Sultan’s Power, involved a dashing American traveler who rescues a young Frenchwoman from the seraglio of a diabolical Turkish nobleman.
—Longreads, 15 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seraglio
Noun
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Every red-blooded American male has no doubt fantasized about what went on in Hugh Hefner’s bedroom with his harem of blond bombshells.—
Alex Apatoff,
People.com,
3 May 2025
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Of course, Grant got to know plenty of women before narrowing his harem down to 18.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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It’s set today in modern-day L.A., somewhere on the coast in a palatial mansion, which is a very sort of film noir setting.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
4 June 2025
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At one point, the head of the family Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville) pays respect to the mansion that made the show famous — the real Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England — by giving it a pat and a kiss, apparently as the family says goodbye to it.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
2 June 2025
Noun
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For Season 7, Love Island USA premiered on a Tuesday night which meant that the second night in the villa would be aired on a Wednesday.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
12 June 2025
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Charlie and Cierra were the first set of bombshells who entered the villa.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
12 June 2025
Noun
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For Local-Secret Spa Vibes: Four Seasons Hotel at Tower Bridge A short stroll from the Tower of London, a historic medieval castle close to Tower Bridge, this neoclassical gem whose ballroom was the site of the inaugural General Assembly of the United Nations in 1946, feels almost cinematic.—
Rooksana Hossenally,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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But the true money shot was a spectacular sequence set in The Sandman’s HQ, a glistening sand castle, with light filtering through a glass kaleidoscope in the ceiling.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2025
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“Seraglio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seraglio. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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