seraglio (as seralyo)

[Ital. serraglio =an inclosure, a paddock, a park, from serrare to shut, to lock, to inclose, from Low Lat. sero, from Latin sera a bar, a bolt, from sero to join or bind together. The modern use of the word is due to confusion with Pers. and Turk. saráy, sarái =a palace, a grand edifice, a king's court, a seraglio. ( Skeat.)] *1. An inclosure, a place or quarter to which certain persons or cla es are confined. 2. A palace; specifically, the palace of the Sultan of Turkey at Constantinople. 3. A harem; a place in which wives or concubines are kept; hence, a place or house of debauchery or licentious pleasure. "Could still exclude unwelcome truth from the purlieus of his own seraglio."- Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. ii. sẽ-rāi, subst . [Pers. & Turk.saráy, sard i .] [SERAGLIO.] A palace, a place of accommodation for travelers; a caravanseray, a khan. "He in Abdallah's palace grew, And held that post in his serai ." Byron: Bride of Abydos, ii. 16 sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. seral sër-al. adj. [Latin sera ( hora )=the evening (hour).] Geol.: Late; an epithet expre ing the period of the nightfall or late twilight of the Appal a chi an Palæozoic day. The coal-measures of North America occupy an area of 200,000 square miles, and range from 3,000 feet to such thickne as to be unworkable. From the fo ils it is evident that the Appal a chi an Seral series is the equivalent of the European Carboniferous series. ( Prof. H. D. Rogers: Geology of Pennsylvania .)