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Meanings of doxy in English

Portuguese
odalisca
Catalan
odalisca

A woman who cohabits with an important man.

odalisca
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Examples for "concubine"
Examples for "concubine"
1
Keturah is spoken of as a concubine in I Chronicles i, 32.
The Woman's Bible
2
This is the lutanist of the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil and his pet concubine.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09
3
And Epha the concubine of Caleb bore Haran, and Mosa, and Gezez.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
4
She could either marry her concubine or Monsieur Philippot or anyone else.
The Guardian
5
I was once a concubine, and now I am a ruling Duchess.
The Winds of Dune
1
And the monk touched with his lips the forehead of the courtesan.
Thais
2
So thinks the understanding which is then the courtesan of the will.
Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence
3
This fine pleasantry made the courtesan laugh, and Jehan left the room.
Notre-Dame de Paris
4
She was as humble as a courtesan who has fallen in love.
Massimilla Doni
5
Gentle courtesy and manners impress a courtesan by reason of the novelty.
The Secrets of the German War Office
1
Question 2: Turns out Mark's would-be paramour was also a part-time actress.
Reuters
2
Defy me, and I slay you in the sight of your paramour.'
Vittoria — Complete
3
A second murdered the paramour and spared his wife, and so on.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
4
Are you telling me that your latest paramour is twice your age?
Impossible
5
Tatiana and her paramour would pay for what they'd done to Velimai.
Blood Rights
1
She is a clothed odalisque, an unreal being in the French countryside.
The Guardian
2
I have dreamed that I was an odalisque, dear-aftersmoking, you know.
Dope
3
She looked less like a princess than an odalisque, captured and resigned.
The Golem and the Jinni
4
The odalisque had vanished in this chill and matter-of-fact housewife.
The Price of Love
5
He felt the fresh delight and trembling limbs of the odalisque coming out of retreat.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
Usage of doxy in English
1
A doxy, a drab, too dumb-whorish even to be a successful whore.
The Book of Skulls
2
Of course I mean by orthodoxy all that don't agree with my doxy.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
3
His aim is to recruit her as his travelling doxy.
Speaks the Nightbird
4
He has hid away, dancing his doxy on his knee.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
5
That pompous old fellow Craike likes to be whacked about by some old doxy.
Sovereign
6
Was she then a doxy, to whom you could promise future wealth for her cooperation?
Speaks the Nightbird
7
Why else would this painted doxy wail for help?
Thief of lives
8
Thence home with my Lord Bruncker to dinner where very merry with him and his doxy.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 38: September 1665
9
But my doxy... The maid snapped her fingers at him, and he choked down the word.
The red queen
10
She still worked part time as a crib doxy, but I saw less and less of her.
The Hyperion Cantos
11
Hers were not just the requirements of the town doxy from the local turnip-heads behind a haystack.
Harvest Home
12
And let each cull's and doxy's heart
Rakes and radishes
13
You are a senior officer of repute, yet you behave like some foul-mouthed seaman with his doxy on the waterfront!
Honour This Day
14
Fearful also that once he left Matthew alone with this Devil's doxy, the boy might never again be the same.
Speaks the Nightbird
15
If you read their history you will see that they are nothing more than a lot of doxy and mistemious bog-stalkers.
The system of the world
16
His orthodoxy was his doxy, and he cared very little for the doxy of any other man or set of men.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
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