COURTESAN
NOUNS
► ABANDONED HABITS the riding dress of the up-market courtesans who frequented Rotten Row in London’s Hyde Park → L19 sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ANONYMA a courtesan, a high-class prostitute → M19 Brit.
► BON TON courtesans, superior prostitutes → E19 sl.
► CROSHABELL a courtesan, a harlot, a prostitute → 1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
► CYPRIAN a courtesan, a lewd woman, a harlot, a prostitute → 1598
► DEMIMONDAINE a courtesan → 1894
► GUINEA-HEN a courtesan, a prostitute → 1604 obs.
► HALFKIRTLE a courtesan → 1600 obs.
► HETAERA ► HETAIRA a courtesan, a female companion or paramour, a mistress, a concubine → 1820
► HIGH-FLYER a high-class, fashionable courtesan or prostitute → 1663 sl.
► HIREN a courtesan, a strumpet, a prostitute; a seductive woman → 1600 obs.
► HORIZONTAL a courtesan → 1886 sl.
► INCOGNITA a courtesan; a high-class prostitute → M19 sl.
► LACED MUTTON a courtesan, a strumpet; a harlot; a prostitute → 1578 sl. obs.
► LADY OF PLEASURE a courtesan, a prostitute → 1652 euphemism
► LIGHT HORSE a courtesan, a harlot → 1620 sl.
► MADAM a courtesan, a kept mistress; a prostitute → 1719 obs.
► MUSK-CAT a prostitute; a courtesan; also, a foppish man → 1567 obs., derogatory
► PAMPHELET a courtesan, a wench → 1500 obs.
► PUCELLE a courtesan, a slut, a prostitute, a wanton girl → 1583 obs.
► PUG a courtesan; a prostitute; a harlot; a mistress → 1607 obs.
► QUAIL a courtesan; a prostitute; so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird → 1577 obs.
► SCOLOPENDRA a nickname for a courtesan; a harlot → 1633 obs.
► TAFFETA PUNK a courtesan → 1598 sl.
► WAGTAIL a courtesan, a wanton woman, a prostitute, a harlot → 1592 obs.
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