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serail

serail

See also: sérail

English

Noun

serail ‎(plural serails)

(now rare) A seraglio.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.42:
  What longing lust would not bee alaid, to see three hundred women at his dispose and pleasure, as hath the Grand Turke in his Seraille?