Meanings of lady of pleasure in English

I expect the church will be full of jaded ladies of pleasure, all waiting to forbid the banns.'

This play was greatly condemned by the critics; some incidents in it are borrowed from Shirley's Lady of Pleasure.

The tables win enormously, and so do the ladies of pleasure; but the winnings of these go back again to the tables.

As Evelyn, the diarist, puts it, this great man's fall was the work of "the buffoones and ladys of pleasure."

This sham petition occasioned a pretended answer, entitled, The Gracious Answer of the Most Illustrious Lady of Pleasure, the Countess of Castlem .

He walked deliberately, firmly, and with head erect, through the hostile throng of courtiers-"especiallythe buffoones and ladys of pleasure," as Evelyn says.