Meanings of great courtesan in English

You know the story of the monk who rescued a great courtesan from her life of shame.

The insolence of a great lady, the dangerously primitive instincts of a great courtesan, filled her with an enormous pride, a reckless self-confidence.

For whatever her sins and lapses, Helen de Vallorbes had the fine æsthetic appreciations, as well as the inevitable animality, of the great courtesan.

All great courtesans are geniuses that way.

'The great courtesan Clarimonde died a few days ago, at the close of an orgie which lasted eight days and eight nights.