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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Later, Cellini is invited to a dinner and shows up with a young man dressed as a woman; the courtesan, his lover at the time, is also at the dinner, which leads to an enormously violent scene.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
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Discovered in 1929 by the German astronomer Karl Reinmuth, it is named after the Spanish courtesan and dancer Carolina Otero.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Vaughan has also made his mark on primetime television, with roles such as the charming firefighter Dan Gordon on Charmed and Calvin Galston, the longtime, married lover of Nova Bordelon on Queen Sugar.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Oct. 2025
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The cable network recently went in search for the best spots for plant lovers in the United States — showcasing a single garden per state.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Oct. 2025
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It was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Oct. 2025
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Commemorative coins honoring the 200th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Tubman, a former slave who helped other slaves escape through the Underground Railroad, were issued in 2024.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Plus, bail bondsmen are the ultimate local rent seekers.—
Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Aug. 2025
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Such a bond limits a defendant from relying on a bail bondsman and the use of collateral.—
Perry Vandell,
AZCentral.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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There was no forgetting the notorious Confederate prison camps like Andersonville and Salisbury, the Confederate pogrom at Fort Pillow, and the fact that the South had seceded in the first place to perpetuate and expand an elite-serving economy based on human chattel.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Oct. 2025
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The term encomienda refers to a kind of slavery, but indios encomendados, or commended Indians, weren’t considered private property, or chattel.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Odalisque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/odalisque. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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