(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.
Noble
Definition:
(superl.) Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.
(superl.) Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.
(superl.) Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.
(n.) A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.
(n.) An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61.
(n.) A European fish; the lyrie.
(v. t.) To make noble; to ennoble.
Example Sentences:
(1) The phi-model also gives the noble numbers and moreover orders them in a way that establishes connections with the morphogenetic principles used in models for pattern generation; the order has to do with the relative frequencies of the spiral patterns in nature.
(2) The current literature, for the most part, cites the use of noble alloys as controls for trials of alternative materials.
(3) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
(4) The absolute mutant number and the induced mutant frequency quantitated from a treated culture is generally higher in BBL compared to Noble agar.
(5) Colonies plated in BBL agar tend to appear significantly earlier on the plates than those cloned in Noble agar.
(6) Ray Noble, a solar adviser at the UK-based Renewable Energy Association, said that the technology was relatively straightforward but the only reason to build floating farms would be if land was very tight.
(7) The foundation years debate focuses on what seems to be the most promising way of achieving that noble ambition.
(8) The potential was found to shift to a less noble state when the system of the chlorophyll-naphthoquinone electrode was inserted into NAD solution with illumination.
(9) A concept so noble in the drawing rooms of Manhattan has degenerated into a sickening prelude to more bloodshed.
(10) Fast migrating properdin (P) represented activated properdin and occured as a result of activation of properdin in the Noble agar medium used for electrophoresis provided sufficient cofactors, including Mg2+, were present.
(11) Dr Noble and Professor Mason, explore the incidence of incest and society's attitudes to it from legal, anthropological, medical and social viewpoints.
(12) Higher endpoint dilutions were obtained by the use of 1% Noble agar in immunoosmophoresis than with 1% Ionagar no.
(13) It was not just a fantastic sporting occasion but a glimpse of a more noble Britain: a country learning to be at ease with disability, and passionately, generously, committed to a vision of equality of opportunity.
(14) European elections have a noble history of delivering such temporary bloody noses.
(15) What campaigners for euthanasia often fail to realise is that, however noble it is in theory, conferring the right to die always runs the risk of diminishing the right to live.
(16) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
(17) The couple met at Nottingham Polytechnic in 1986, and moved to London in the early Nineties - just as the Young British Artist phenomenon gathered steam and media attention - where Noble studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art .
(18) For centuries, kings and queens had no option but to contract out courts, taxes, roads, prisons, to nobles and business folk.
(19) Stopping the boats” and avoiding people dying at sea is a noble motive if its combined with solutions that place the rights of refugees first.
(20) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.