A seraglio (also serraglio)'s the sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in a Turkish household, from an Italian variant of Persian saray (سرای), meaning "palace", "enclosed courts". The term "harem"'s also used to refer to these sequestered living quarters, but has additionally come to refer to the entire sequestered household of women. In the context of the turquerie fashion, the seraglio became the subject of works of art, the most famous perhaps bei… (More on Seraglio)