strumpet
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Anne Boleyn was no strumpet; she was King Henry's lawful wife, and Elizabeth is the king's legitimate daughter!
From Henry VIII and His Court by Henry Niles Pierce
How like a prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind!
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
For the third degree, they prouided Bridewell, where the vagabond and idle strumpet is chastised, and compelled to labour, to the ouerthrow of the vicious life of idlenes.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
I must begin by stating that I do not accept implicitly Shakespeare's angry declarations that his mistress was a mere strumpet.
From The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris
As a matron is unlike and of a different aspect from a strumpet, so will a true friend differ from the toad-eater.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
Vocabulary lists containing strumpet
