FromMiddle Frenchsérail, fromItalianserraglio.

serail (pluralserails)

1. (nowrare) Aseraglio.
   • c.1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great.[…] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London:[…][R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act III, scene iii:

     He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch,
     And in mySarell tend my Concubines:

   • 1603,Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, inJohn Florio, transl.,The Essayes […], book I, London:[…]Val[entine] Simmes forEdward Blount […],→OCLC:

     What longing lust would not bee alaid, to see three hundred women at his dispose and pleasure, as hath the GrandTurke in hisSeraille?

   • 1990,Roy Porter,English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin, published1991, page264:

     London teemed with brothels and other pleasure domes such as Mrs Hayes'sserail in Pall Mall, whose floor show included a Tahitian “Love Feast’ between twelve nymphs and twelve youths, and naked dancing.

• Ariels,Lieras,serial,resail,Sal Rei,ariels,Realis,sailer,Isreal,relais,Israël,realis,Alires,Sailer,Israel,railes