a female slave of the harem, in Turkish she is literally a 'maid of the chamber'
a woman of a middle eastern harem
a word for a slave/concubine in a harem
(Turkish) From the word "oda" meaning room, it literally translates as "woman of the room". An odalisque was a (temporarily) favored one in the Grand Seraglio Turkish harem, who was given her own room. She was not officially elevated to Kadin (wife). She was a concubine. All the women in the Grand Seraglio were slaves of the Sultan. Some of the more favored in turn had their own slaves/ servants.
A female house servant in the Middle East depicted by several 19th- and early-20th-century painters as exotic figures at leisure.