Odalisque: alternatives and connections

One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.

The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.

Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of A…

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female…

a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics

Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.

See Female rhyme, under Female, a.

Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom o…

A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.

A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.

A slave in ancient Sparta; a Spartan serf; hence, a slave or serf.

The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.

A decree of the Sultan.

A governor or viceroy; -- a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt.

A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.