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Meanings of lady of pleasure in English
Portuguese
devassa Catalan
prostituta 
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.
Synonyms
Examples for "whore"
Examples for "whore"
1
Of course O'Melaghlin would come here, dragging the de Valery whore behind.
2
What I said was this: I merely wished to question the whore!
3
The artist was at least as present in her as the whore.
4
Funny too-youknow how they say a whore makes a good wife?
5
Neil was a little whore; had been for quite a few years.
1
Some recipes, however, I prefer unmodified: my mother's Bakewell tart, for example.
2
Give it a go and try this South African milk tart today.
3
Line the tart case and refrigerate for at least half an hour.
4
The debates between her and my sister grew more tart and violent.
5
I've often seen her here and if anyone's a tart it's her.'
1
Not many mothers branded their daughters with a prostitute's name at birth.
2
You can feel no pity for the murderer, the thief, the prostitute.
3
He was the son of a Greek rhetor and a Campanian prostitute.
4
A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a citizen.
5
But I've heard rumors already of a plot to prostitute the law.
1
Kratinus plainly speaks of her as a harlot in the following lines:
2
People polluted with this defection appear under the image of a harlot.
3
She arrayed herself in flesh-taking ornaments-gold ,andprecious stones, like an harlot.
4
Beware, I say, of the papist Eve, the harlot and the Jezebel.
5
How Apuleius was handled by the Bakers wife, which was a harlot.
1
Poor Cyprian is off to Marienbad and I must go with him.
2
Cyprian Eveleth said to his sister, after a brief word of greeting.
3
Cyprian also charges one of his deacons with fraud, extortion, and adultery.
4
Cyprian's care not only extended over Carthage, but to Numidia and Mauritania.
5
St. Cyprian, A.D. 250, does not include Hebrews among St. Paul's Epistles.
1
He cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd.
2
But the drysian said the bawd had been to her with various maladies.
3
Or until my fine bawd can scrape together a few ducats.
4
Upon this we parted, and the same bawd presently provided her another keeper.
5
Elias was friends with every bawd, whore, and merrymaker in town.
1
They chafed and bantered and stormed every café and cocotte impartially, recklessly.
2
Now Brochet was the surname of a certain fascinating cocotte.
3
She probably thinks these delays and subterfuges are necessary to differentiate her from a cocotte.
4
She lived for most part like a mere cocotte.
5
She will end"-hemade the gesture of counting money into his hand-"shewill end as a cocotte."
1
Remember me, I'm the working girl, and I happen to be exhausted.
2
If she was a working girl, she definitely wasn't from my agency.
3
If I'd been an honest working girl he'd never have noticed me.
4
If I don't understand men, Mr. Harwood, no poor working girl does.
5
Only a working girl, plain in appearance and in dress, diffident and self-effacing.
1
Oh, I'm a sporting lady, dear master.
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You think I'm as bad as any woman of the street.
2
Jimmie got drunk and wasted a part of his money on a woman of the street.
3
As between the three-thenoblewoman, the working woman and the woman of the street-themedical officials in charge made no distinction whatsoever.
4
Even the Saviour had been kind to the woman of the streets.
5
Let the streets do their will with the woman of the streets.
1
Your mom's a pretty fancy woman.
2
Fellows don't generally fancy women that age; they like slips of girls.
3
As these fancy women knew all too well, one didn't achieve, one connived.
4
Miss Fairfax fancies women can have no ambition on their own account, Cecil.
5
The johns like to think they're getting treated fancy by the fancy women.
Usage of lady of pleasure in English
1
I expect the church will be full of jaded ladies of pleasure, all waiting to forbid the banns.'
2
This play was greatly condemned by the critics; some incidents in it are borrowed from Shirley's Lady of Pleasure.
3
The tables win enormously, and so do the ladies of pleasure; but the winnings of these go back again to the tables.
4
As Evelyn, the diarist, puts it, this great man's fall was the work of "the buffoones and ladys of pleasure."
5
This sham petition occasioned a pretended answer, entitled, The Gracious Answer of the Most Illustrious Lady of Pleasure, the Countess of Castlem .
6
He walked deliberately, firmly, and with head erect, through the hostile throng of courtiers-"especiallythe buffoones and ladys of pleasure," as Evelyn says.
Translations for lady of pleasure
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