Definition: 1 : a female slave 2 : a concubine in a harem

Quotation: “Love? What was love?…She saw men saying the same words–the eligible men–the ethereal dons, the hardy cricketeers guzzling stout, the desperate widows with young children, the aging barristers with whom optimism outweighed realism. Then the ones in between, carrying guns or poetry books, shaking spears or Marxist pamphlets or sieves in which opals did sometimes appear.
“And the less eligible, the brooding European philosopher-youths draped in gabardine coats under fur hats…She had feared that they despised her even as they flashed a glance of admiration at her form. There was…an ardent Turk who pinched her hand, enraged at her refusal to be his odalisque, his finest concubine…All their longings had been encapsulated in the word love.” from A Cry of Stone by Michael O’Brien

Try out this word in your next pickup line. “Baby, let me make you my odalisque, my finest concubine.” How can you go wrong?