What's the difference between courtesan and whore?

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.

Whore


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
  • (n.) To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.
  • (n.) To worship false and impure gods.
  • (v. t.) To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The defiant Philippine leader has responded to critics with a string of outbursts, including labelling the US ambassador to Manila a “gay son of a whore” , telling the Catholic church “don’t fuck with me” , and accusing the UN of issuing “shitting” statements about his anti-drugs policies.
  • (2) Pro-Kiev activists later pelted the former banking tycoon with eggs, calling him "Putin's whore".
  • (3) Club leaders, who argue that a wife should serve as a "good sex worker" and a "whore" to her husband, showed the book to journalists last month in an effort to dispel what they called misconceptions that it was obscene and demeaning to women.
  • (4) In most languages, the most common sexist insults are "whore" or "slut", which makes women want to distance themselves from the stigma associated with those words, and from those who incarnate it.
  • (5) "We have run all sorts of scenarios internally, some quite dramatic ... you often lose the most money on a Devil's Whore or Red Riding," he added, before reiterating that the drama budget would not be affected.
  • (6) Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered "Nice arse!
  • (7) Here’s a sex freak father, hanging around with whores and massage parlors and swinging and all that,” he said, of the rumors that spread about him.
  • (8) In the end, I decided I didn't really want to embark on a new career as a tabloid hell-whore, and it wasn't until the Daily Mail carried a tame little diary item last autumn saying Max had a 'close companion' that he was semi-outed - although even then, it transpires, it was only because he granted his permission.
  • (9) Once I was out with friends and was asked “So will you be out whoring tonight?” Some people need educating.
  • (10) Rima, a Christian-Israeli Arab, has been branded a Roma, Romanian, "Jew whore" and "dirty Arab" by a family who have subjected her family to a slew of racist abuse and intimidation.
  • (11) "Come gentlemen," he said, "there is a little bit of the whore in all of us; name your price."
  • (12) Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has refused to apologise for calling the US ambassador “gay” and “the son of a whore” in remarks that sparked a diplomatic row.
  • (13) After Obama's re-election, Nugent said on Twitter: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
  • (14) On the other side of the coin, the comforting notion that anti-Muslim bigotry is confined to a handful of click-seeking media whores does not hold.
  • (15) He also said the US ambassador was a gay “son of a whore”.
  • (16) Called "whores" and "sluts", husbands shun them and police and judges can re-rape them.
  • (17) When the French president tells a member of the public at the Paris agricultural fair who doesn't want to shake his hand to "sod off, you cretin," why shouldn't a French footballer call his coach a "filthy son of a whore"?
  • (18) You are a total cunt.” At the end of the episode before that, while Hannah jealously deletes Fran’s photos of his naked ex-girlfriends, she murmurs: “What are you smiling about, you little whore?
  • (19) All the world’s a brothel, and we’re all whores,” he yells between saccharine renditions of the national anthem.
  • (20) The single went mammoth, but she found herself hated in much of France: "Whore" was scrawled on walls near her home, and she was spat at in the street.

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