(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.
Prostitute
Definition:
(v. t.) To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
(v. t.) To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.
(a.) Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
(n.) A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
(n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
Example Sentences:
(1) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(2) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.
(3) It focuses on the major areas of concern: HIV prevalence among drug injectors; sexual risk behaviour; the potential for heterosexual transmission; condom use; sexual risk and women; pregnancy; male homosexual activity and drug use; the effect of drugs on sexual behaviour and prostitution.
(4) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(5) Seroprevalence in diverse Thai groups included 6% of men with sexually transmitted diseases, 15% of prostitutes, and 6% of army recruits.
(6) These results show that in Nairobi prostitutes are a readily identifiable group of high-frequency transmitters of gonococcal infection.
(7) Compared to cases in the previous year, infectious syphilis cases among prostitutes and seasonal farm workers decreased 51.3 per cent and 26.8 per cent, respectively.
(8) "Women who are forced to become prostitutes via trafficking are examples of modern-day slavery."
(9) The city, which only allows prostitution in certain areas, also plans to spend SFr700,000 a year to keep the sex boxes running.
(10) Window prostitutes are at higher risk than club prostitutes.
(11) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(12) Two seropositive prostitutes had IgM hepatitis B core antibody suggesting recent infection.
(13) Serological results were correlated with history of intravenous drug addiction, alcohol abuse, homosexuality or prostitution (high-risk groups), and duration and number of internments.
(14) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
(15) He did so, the judges asserted, because he was facing related charges in another case involving accusations that he paid for sex with an underage prostitute who was also a "bunga bunga" guest.
(16) The difference in the incidence of ASA between controls (5%) and the prostitutes (43.1%) was highly significant (p less than 0.01).
(17) The increasing number of HIV infected patients in the Netherlands living outside of Amsterdam, would appear to urge more education of psychiatric and other health care professionals concerning specific aspects of HIV infection, homosexuality, prostitution and intravenous drug abuse.
(18) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
(19) The article first reviews the epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among prostitutes.
(20) These prostitutes represented a reservoir for STDs including HIV.