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8 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
originFrom Italian serraglio, from Vulgar Latin *serrāculum, from a late form of Latin serāre (“lock up, close”), from sera (“lock, bolt”). The Italian word was used (because of phonetic similarity) to translate Turkish saray (“palace”). Compare serai, serail.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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