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woman of easy virtue

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The find was known thereafter as The Red Lady of Paviland and Victorian minds assumed "she" had been a woman of easy virtue, buried far from polite society in a grave in a cave.

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A female lawyer took up her case immediately afterward, but the court cast the blame on Mathura, calling her a woman of “easy virtue,” and the two police officers were released.

His comrade was delighted at being received by a woman of easy virtue, and above all at having a chat with an actor.

Eventually, because of the instrument's feminine shape, easy rider came to mean a woman of easy virtue or a man who prospered by her entrepreneurial activities.

"A great party," cried Viscount Hailsham on TV last week, "is not to be brought down by a woman of easy virtue!"

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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