Ulysses vocabulary

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bona roba
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bona roba

help with synonyms  synonyms: courtesan, wapping-dell, doxy, paphian, moll, chippy ???
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Definition:
"good, wholesome, plum-cheeked wench" (Johnson) —not always used in compliment.

Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (glossary) (1610)
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A showy wanton; a courtesan.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Uses:
 DRUG. Sir, there is lodged, hard by me,
 A rich young widow—
 FACE. Good! a bona roba?

Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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Why does he send to one who is a buonaroba, a bay where all men ride, a maid of honour with a scandalous girlhood, a lordling to woo for him?

James Joyce. Ulysses
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