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courtesan
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synonyms: demimondaine, demirep, hetaera, strumpet, cocotte, Paphian, doxy, wapping dell, giglot, bona-roba ???
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Definition:a prostitute who courts royals or other VIP's. Madame du Barry was one.
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Whatever the price turned out to be, he certainly could afford one night in Europe with a courtesan. He was proud of himself for thinking of the word—courtesan.
Irwin Shaw. Beggarman, Thief, p.38 (1977)
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When he was coming she filled the two large blue glass vases with roses, and prepared her room and her person like a courtesan expecting a prince.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Charlotte: You want me to be a whore?!
Malory: No, not a whore. Good heavens, no. You'd be more like a courtesan.
Charlotte: Who men pay for sex.
Malory: And sparkling conversation. And not just men, necessarily.
Adam Reed. Archer, season 9, Danger Island: Disheartening Situation, @11:22 (2018)
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“This poor army!” he suddenly remarked. “It has diminished greatly since Smolensk. Fortune is frankly a courtesan, Rapp.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 10 (Book Ten)
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the courtesan told M. Verdurin that she had made the acquaintance of such a charming gentleman,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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