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Definition of Lady of pleasure
1. Noun. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.
Exact synonyms: Bawd, Cocotte, Cyprian, Fancy Woman, Harlot, Prostitute, Sporting Lady, Tart, Whore, Woman Of The Street, Working Girl
Specialized synonyms: Call Girl, Camp Follower, Comfort Woman, Ianfu, Demimondaine, Floozie, Floozy, Hooker, Hustler, Slattern, Street Girl, Streetwalker, White Slave
Generic synonyms: Adult Female, Woman
Derivative terms: Bawdy, Prostitute, Whore, Whore, Whoredom
Specialized synonyms: Call Girl, Camp Follower, Comfort Woman, Ianfu, Demimondaine, Floozie, Floozy, Hooker, Hustler, Slattern, Street Girl, Streetwalker, White Slave
Generic synonyms: Adult Female, Woman
Derivative terms: Bawdy, Prostitute, Whore, Whore, Whoredom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lady Of Pleasure
Literary usage of Lady of pleasure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. James Shirley, Dramatist: A Biographical and Critical Study by Arthur Huntington Nason (1915)
"The Lady of Pleasure, the last, with but two exceptions,1 of Shirley's comedies
of manners, is a bitter but clever satire upon the wilder lords and ladies ..."
2. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, David Garrick (1854)
"... My soul will not contain, I fear, but loose, So flowing, it drowns all my
faculties. And leave me in this ecstasy. THE lady of pleasure: A COMEDY, ..."
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