Seraglio

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An inclosure; a place of separation.

II. Seraglio ·noun A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.

III. Seraglio ·noun The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem.