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courtesan
noun as in mistress
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Tonya Jone Miller, who describes herself as an “aural courtesan,” has run the Bay City Blues sex-line for nine years.
She killed herself in 1925 and she also may have been a courtesan, I discovered a few years ago.
Instead, Violet is kidnapped and solid to a rival courtesan house, where she is trained by an older courtesan named Magic Gourd.
The look was inspired by Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and the World War I spy Mata Hari.
The Girl Who Loved Camellias by Julie Kavanagh The courtesan who seduced Paris—and inspired Dumas and La Traviata.
But to be really loved by a courtesan: that is a victory of infinitely greater difficulty.
Couture was always welcome at the home of the courtesan, who dreamed, perhaps, of making him her husband.
First I hated you, when I dreamed you to be but a courtesan traitress.
Wilhelmine turned to her and, bending, kissed the old courtesan on the brow.
In fact, they are on a level with the common, paid courtesan,—the lowest rank there is.
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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to courtesan, such as: concubine, paramour, prostitute, and whore.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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