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strumpet [ˈstrʌmpɪt] n
Archaic a prostitute or promiscuous woman [of unknown origin] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Franz went in with his eyes blindfolded, and was waited on by mutes and by women to whom Cleopatra was a painted strumpet. " "I don't know what is worse," cries Deborah, "than for such wicked strumpets to lay their sins at honest men's doors; and though your worship knows your own innocence, yet the world is censorious; and it hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot; and if your worship should provide for the child, it may make the people the apter to believe; besides, why should your worship provide for what the parish is obliged to maintain? |
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strumpet - a woman adulterer