serail

See also: sérail

English

Etymology

From Middle French sérail, from Italian seraglio.

Noun

serail (plural serails)

(now rare) A seraglio.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  What longing lust would not bee alaid, to see three hundred women at his dispose and pleasure, as hath the Grand Turke in his Seraille?

Anagrams

Alires, Israel, Isreal, Lieras, Sailer, Sal Rei, ariels, railes, realis, relais, resail, sailer, serial

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