serail

English

Etymology

From Middle French sérail, from Italian seraglio.

Noun

serail (plural serails)

1. (now rare) A seraglio.
   • 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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?