What's the difference between courtesan and courtesanship?
Courtesan
Definition:
(n.) A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tattoos, especially large, intricate motifs of mythical beasts and shogun-era courtesans , are traditionally associated in Japan with yakuza gang membership.
(2) "Bomber" Harris, Britain's Bomber Command mastermind who insisted this was the way to win the war, was apparently responsible for burning paintings such as Van Gogh's Painter on the Way to Work and Caravaggio's first version of St Matthew, as well as his portrait of a courtesan.
(3) Writers, kings, courtesans and clerks, we all crave our own immortality.
(4) Despite their shared childhood classes, he maddened Whitelaw at the National in 1964, dismissing her work on The Dutch Courtesan but refusing to suggest alternatives.
(5) But her protective layer comes off to reveal stick-thin arms covered, from the wrists up, with a tattoo that winds its way to her chest and across her back, culminating, on her left shoulder, in the face of a Muromachi-era courtesan with breast exposed and a knife clenched between her teeth.
(6) They followed it with classical seasons in cluding Volpone, The Dutch Courtesan and a reputedly outstanding Richard II from Harry H Corbett (later in television's Steptoe And Son).
(7) 1: Cavorting courtesans At the work's heart is one of the most sumptuous collections of nudes ever painted.
(8) The most brilliant example of this - unexpectedly in a man who often painted women with a certain powdered dreariness - is his portrait of the courtesan Nelly O'Brien.
(9) Caravaggio Portrait of a Courtesan Caravaggio's great painting of Saint Matthew and this portrait of a courtesan friend were both stored in Berlin art shelters that were hit by incendiary bombs.
(10) He didn't strive to paint the court and the aristocracy – he was painting the courtesans and the street people, the hookers and the hustlers.
(11) Keen to see her nation thrive, she likens her role in these cases to that of the Edo period courtesans, or oiran , who used to initiate samurai sons into the art of erotic pleasure.
(12) Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.
(13) Does Titian, too, include a black servant to show that he is actually portraying the courtesans of Venice?
(14) Describing the incredibly stifling conventions that prevented people from sleeping with each other until they were married, he was eloquent, in his chapter "Eros Matutinus", in his disgust at the way that the procuresses "who supplied the court, aristocracy and the rich bourgeoisie" with courtesans were outside the law, whereas "strict discipline, merciless supervision and social ostracism applied only to the army of thousands upon thousands of prostitutes whose bodies and humiliated souls were recruited to defend an ancient and long-since-eroded concept of morality against free, natural forms of love."
(15) Nobody campaigns against the career courtesans who are Belgravia bankers' wives, or the footballers' consorts of Cheshire.
(16) A poster held up by a young campaigner reads "Pyaar kiya koi chori nahi kee", a musical line from the film Mughal-e-Azam in which a courtesan who will be sentenced to death for daring to love a prince insists that she has loved someone, not stolen something.
(17) In Renaissance Venice, where Titian was the leading painter, courtesans (basically high-class prostitutes) were a recognised part of society and artists regularly portrayed them - but never more ecstatically than here, in what is in all likelihood a brothel scene cloaked in myth.
(18) The play is a comic farce set in ancient Rome, in which Corden would play Pseudolus, a slave who helps his master woo a courtesan who lives next door, in order to win his freedom.