Brewer's: Haram

or Harem, means in Arabic forbidden, or not to be violated; a name given by Mahometans to those apartments which are appropriated exclusively to the female members of a family.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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