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Meanings of courtesan in English
Synonyms
Examples for "concubine"
Examples for "concubine"
1
Keturah is spoken of as a concubine in I Chronicles i, 32.
2
This is the lutanist of the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil and his pet concubine.
3
And Epha the concubine of Caleb bore Haran, and Mosa, and Gezez.
4
She could either marry her concubine or Monsieur Philippot or anyone else.
5
I was once a concubine, and now I am a ruling Duchess.
1
Question 2: Turns out Mark's would-be paramour was also a part-time actress.
2
Defy me, and I slay you in the sight of your paramour.'
3
A second murdered the paramour and spared his wife, and so on.
4
Are you telling me that your latest paramour is twice your age?
5
Tatiana and her paramour would pay for what they'd done to Velimai.
1
She is a clothed odalisque, an unreal being in the French countryside.
2
I have dreamed that I was an odalisque, dear-aftersmoking, you know.
3
She looked less like a princess than an odalisque, captured and resigned.
4
The odalisque had vanished in this chill and matter-of-fact housewife.
5
He felt the fresh delight and trembling limbs of the odalisque coming out of retreat.
1
A doxy, a drab, too dumb-whorish even to be a successful whore.
2
Of course I mean by orthodoxy all that don't agree with my doxy.
3
His aim is to recruit her as his travelling doxy.
4
He has hid away, dancing his doxy on his knee.
5
That pompous old fellow Craike likes to be whacked about by some old doxy.
Usage of courtesan in English
1
And the monk touched with his lips the forehead of the courtesan.
2
So thinks the understanding which is then the courtesan of the will.
3
This fine pleasantry made the courtesan laugh, and Jehan left the room.
4
She was as humble as a courtesan who has fallen in love.
5
Gentle courtesy and manners impress a courtesan by reason of the novelty.
6
But that night she stopped being his courtesan and became his equal.
7
At the same time, he falls in love with a Chinese courtesan.
8
Archer eyed Chaol again, and she took a step toward the courtesan.
9
Or will he venture to recognize HER in presence of the courtesan?
10
She looked more like Signora Santina than she did a famous courtesan.
11
She had lost all, but she knew how to suffer,- atruecourtesan.
12
The concept of the courtesan is more or less obsolete in modern times.
13
From adventuress to evangelist; coryphée, courtesan, and convert, each in turn.
14
From the lures of the courtesan we went to an adjoining gaming room.
15
The great artist could admire what the courtesan laughed to scorn.
16
But what did a courtesan do to make that much money?
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