Word Finder - harems

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The private part of an Arab household, traditionally forbidden to male strangers.

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A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.

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A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals, sea lions, baboons, and elephant seals.

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Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.

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A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.

After 1600 B.C. the palaces in Crete had more than one story, fine stairways, bath-chambers, windows, folding and sliding doors, &c. In this later period, the distinction of blocks of apartments in some palaces has been held to indicate the seclusion of women in harems, at least among the ruling caste.

At suitable localities of the coast which are sheltered from the waves and overgrown with seaweed, especially in rock-pools, one or two males establish themselves with their harems, and may be observed without difficulty, being quite as fearless as their freshwater cousins.

Into a land of harems, a land of polygamy, a land where women are married without ever being seen, he introduced the flirtations and jealousies of our ball-rooms. In a land where there is boundless liberty of divorce, wedlock is described as the indissoluble compact.

Some officers, who led these forays, turned their quarters into harems and fell into bed each night with a new captive.

The trees was formerly planted about the palace harems in Java.