noun
- 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.