hareem
Americannoun
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Proud purists who know enough to pronounce harem "hareem" may have suspected that this picture was misleading.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is one of the few novelists on record who can spatter their pages with italicized words�jellabias, bassourabs, girbas, tohs, fil-fil, mehara, hareem, Bismillah!�without seeming unduly affected.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet some few lights of the hareem were not disposed to be extinguished altogether by considerations of etiquette, and passed hurriedly along, as though bent upon avoiding us and uncertain of our exact direction.
From Morocco by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)
Occidental travellers are always curious about the hareem.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
The only place we could find for them which would be hareem was a large room which we used as a wood-house.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by Hume-Griffith, A.
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