Meaning & use
Hareem
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A variant spelling of "harem": the separate part of a traditional Muslim household reserved for wives and female family members, or the women who live there.
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Historical accounts describe the elaborate architecture of the sultan's hareem.
Travel writers of the era often wrote with fascination, and inaccuracy, about the hareem.
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An alternate English transliteration of the Arabic "harim," meaning "forbidden" or "sacred, protected place."
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