1. a female slave or concubine in a Turkish harem
Usage: historical

Examples

• The painting depicted an odalisk reclining on silk cushions.
• Many 19th-century European artists painted romanticized images of odalisks.
• The museum’s collection includes several Orientalist paintings featuring odalisks.
• Historical accounts describe the daily life of an odalisk in the Ottoman palace.
• The novel portrayed the odalisk as both captive and confidante to the sultan.