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anderoon|ændəˈruːn|
Also anderun.
[Pers. enderūn prop. internal, interior, f. ender within.]
The apartments of a (Persian) harem; also, any inner room of a house.
1840Savile in New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 189 In the anderoon..sat Khodadad, in sweet converse with his beloved Semira. 1842Thackeray Sultan Stork (1887) 7 The ladies they kept so secretly in the anderoon. 1900Westm. Gaz. 20 July 2/1 The household gathering outside the anderoon till the Shah emerges. 1934F. Stark Valleys of Assassins iii. 213 An inner anderun where the women slept. |