Odalisqueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• odalisk

語源

Borrowed from French odalisque, from Ottoman Turkish اوطه‌لق (odalık, “chambermaid”), from اوده (oda, “room”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈəʊd(ə)lɪsk/, /ˈɒd(ə)lɪsk/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈoʊdlɪsk/, /oʊdlˈisk/

名詞

odalisque (plural odalisques)

1. (historical) A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio.
   • 1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

     When the young Mauretanians were his guests in the little houses before the town gates, and he was of a good humour, it would come about that he displayed his odalisques as others would their jewels.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 96:

     They grew fat, but successfully resisted the enticing odalisques with whom they were confronted.

   • 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72:

     Though I could see the titan odalisques and their garden and knew them to be no more than dream-stuff recalled, I could not escape from their fascination and the memory of the dream.

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 30, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 296:

     The Sector is borne in a padded Waggon, like some mechanickal Odalisque.

2. A desirable or sexually attractive woman.

反意語

• virago

参考

• sultana

参照

アナグラム

• odaliques