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Recent Examples of odalisque
Mickalene Thomas gets a whole room for her paintings of Black odalisques, and Derrick Adams gets an entire wall of his male nudes.
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Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2024
In art history, the odalisque is a female figure in repose, her body splayed out for the viewer’s eye to devour.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 19 through March 12 In a Joan Brown painting, a cat might sit pensively in the middle of a Kool-Aid-colored landscape and a woman with the body of a tiger might take the pose of an Ingres odalisque.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
One of our first glimpses of the young performer, played by Austin Butler, is from behind, draped against some flotsam at a carnival like a country-boy odalisque, his beauty evident even from the partial view.
—Vulture, 24 June 2022
These women, usually sitting or lying, provide the base for each chaise longue’s form—turning the image of an odalisque into the furniture itself.
—Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
Displayed as a conventional odalisque — a reclining nude — in an unexpectedly static five-minute video shot.
—Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
Baker figures elsewhere as a cheerful odalisque, eloquently emulating a motif from Matisse.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
Each includes a reclining odalisque, two seated women around a hookah, and a female Black servant.
—Lance Esplund, WSJ, 2 July 2021
Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2024
In art history, the odalisque is a female figure in repose, her body splayed out for the viewer’s eye to devour.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 19 through March 12 In a Joan Brown painting, a cat might sit pensively in the middle of a Kool-Aid-colored landscape and a woman with the body of a tiger might take the pose of an Ingres odalisque.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
One of our first glimpses of the young performer, played by Austin Butler, is from behind, draped against some flotsam at a carnival like a country-boy odalisque, his beauty evident even from the partial view.
—Vulture, 24 June 2022
These women, usually sitting or lying, provide the base for each chaise longue’s form—turning the image of an odalisque into the furniture itself.
—Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 30 Nov. 2022
Displayed as a conventional odalisque — a reclining nude — in an unexpectedly static five-minute video shot.
—Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
Baker figures elsewhere as a cheerful odalisque, eloquently emulating a motif from Matisse.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
Each includes a reclining odalisque, two seated women around a hookah, and a female Black servant.
—Lance Esplund, WSJ, 2 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for odalisque
Noun
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Think of the many historical instances of artificially easy companionship for powerful men, all the geisha and the courtesans.—
Jaron Lanier,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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Lakan later earns enough money to buy out the contract of even the most expensive courtesan at the Verdigris House.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And that’s exactly what Hub gets when attempting to arrest two criminals who have escaped bail, but who end up catching the bondsman off-guard, shooting him with a shotgun blast (a bulletproof vest saves his life) and then ultimately slitting his throat with a knife.—
Demetrius Patterson,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Apr. 2025
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Hub is a second-generation bondsman, having followed in the footsteps of his acerbic mother — and, as a middle-aged divorcée, roommate — Kitty (Beth Grant).—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Here are five must-see spots for literature fiends in Istanbul: Pera Palace Hotel Pera Palace is most well-known for literature lovers as the hotel where Agatha Christie allegedly wrote Murder on the Orient Express.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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And that’s where many younger Millennials and Gen Z music lovers first fell in love with the artform.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
25 May 2025
Noun
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President Donald Trump has stated that birthright citizenship — which his administration is trying to overturn in court — was originally intended for a narrow group of people: the children of slaves.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2025
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The word cowboy itself was used in a derogatory way to describe the former slaves as 'boys,' ... destroying the negative connotation, what remains is the strength and resiliency of these men who were the true definition of Western fortitude.—
Alex Gonzalez,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Each Reacher season has given our abnormally large vigilante hobo an statistically ordinary, human-size paramour.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2025
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Hopefully, your paramour will take a hint and follow suit.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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To this day, she’s drawn to the bruise of blue that belies the kittenish blush, the tension between the girl next door and the demimondaine, who are not so far apart, who may even be one.—
Susan Dominus Photographs by Joshua Kissi Styled by Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs by Collier Schorr Styled by Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs by Tina Barney,
New York Times,
14 Oct. 2021
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The object of Christian’s adoration is Satine, a nightclub chanteuse and demimondaine, almost past her prime and riddled with consumption.—
Ben Brantley,
New York Times,
25 July 2019
Noun
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There is no question, the enslaved workers at the Nottoway Plantation during the antebellum era were human chattel.—
Maurice Carlos Ruffin,
Time,
21 May 2025
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Khartoum was founded as a slave market, in 1821, and Arabs continued to raid southern areas, including the Nuba Mountains, for human chattel long after the practice was outlawed, in 1924.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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“Odalisque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/odalisque. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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