courtesan
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For her scene, Bhatti has taken inspiration from a scene in classic Bollywood film Pakeezah, in which a courtesan dances on broken glass.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
The wrestling coach at the American school in Tokyo, Ernst’s glamorous courtesan Chizuko, and many of the characters are composites.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
In his 18th opera, Giuseppe Verdi provocatively made the lead role a courtesan in contemporary Paris.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
And when the Parisian crowds rolled into the Salon of 1865, they too went berserk in front of Édouard Manet’s painting of a courtesan, her maid and her high-strung black cat.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2023
“Destined to be inseparable friends, in fact. A courtesan, a pilgrim, a princess, and a bullfighter. Hill House has surely never seen our like.”
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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The Haunting of Hill House
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
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Typical American
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