odalisques in English
noun
1
a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the sultan of Turkey.
But so gaudy a style made her look like a pampered odalisque rather than the mother of the future king.
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1. In Leipzig-based painter Rosa Loy’s phantasmagoric compositions, the industrious, rosy-cheeked women of socialist realism are recast in Kafkaesque mise-en-scènes, in which they farm human-faced heads of lettuce, feed lollipops to Harpies wearing headbands, and recline on couches in poses of Analysands more than odalisques.