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Значения термина lady of pleasure на английском

португальский
devassa
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prostituta
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A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.

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      Использование термина lady of pleasure на английском
      1
      I expect the church will be full of jaded ladies of pleasure, all waiting to forbid the banns.'
      The corfu trilogy
      2
      This play was greatly condemned by the critics; some incidents in it are borrowed from Shirley's Lady of Pleasure.
      The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volum...
      3
      The tables win enormously, and so do the ladies of pleasure; but the winnings of these go back again to the tables.
      Tracks of a Rolling Stone
      4
      As Evelyn, the diarist, puts it, this great man's fall was the work of "the buffoones and ladys of pleasure."
      The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series
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      This sham petition occasioned a pretended answer, entitled, The Gracious Answer of the Most Illustrious Lady of Pleasure, the Countess of Castlem .
      Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 64: April 1668
      6
      He walked deliberately, firmly, and with head erect, through the hostile throng of courtiers-"especiallythe buffoones and ladys of pleasure," as Evelyn says.
      The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series