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Definition of Prostitutes

1. prostitute [v] - See also: prostitute

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prostitutes

Literary usage of Prostitutes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects Throughout the by William W. Sanger (1876)
"Classes of prostitutes.—Loose prostitutes.—Various Classes of lewd Women.—Meretrices.—Dancing Girls.—Bawds. —Mule prostitutes.—Houses of Prostitution. ..."

2. The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects Throughout the by William W. Sanger (1859)
"Number of prostitutes in Paris.—Their Nativity, Parentage, Education, Age, etc. ... According to them, the average number of prostitutes inscribed had risen ..."

3. A Study of Women Delinquents in New York State by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, Almena Dawley, Beardsley Ruml (1920)
"We have included here not only the professional prostitutes who made their entire living in this manner, but also the irregular prostitutes who supplemented ..."

4. A Study of Women Delinquents in New York State by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, Almena Dawley, Beardsley Ruml (1920)
"The most of the data we present for this will be for the total group of prostitutes,.since, if divided by institutional groups, the numbers are too small ..."

5. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the by Patrick Colquhoun (1806)
"The morals of Youth corrupted by the multitudes of prostitutes in the streets.—These temptations excite desires ti-hich suggest undue means of obtaining ..."

6. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"The mayor may forbid the letting of lodgings to prostitutes and bad characters, by virtue of the general police powers given by the municipal law of 1884. ..."

7. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"The mayor may forbid the letting of lodgings to prostitutes and bad characters, by virtue of the general police powers given by the municipal law of 1884. ..."

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