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cour·te·san
(kôr′tĭ-zən)n.
A woman prostitute, especially one whose clients are members of a royal court or men of high social standing.
[French courtisane, from Old French, from Old Italian cortigiana, feminine of cortigiano, courtier, from corte, court, from Latin cohors, cohort-; see gher- in Indo-European roots.]
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courtesan
(ˌkɔːtɪˈzæn) orcourtezan
n
(Historical Terms) (esp formerly) a prostitute, or the mistress of a man of rank
[C16: from Old French courtisane, from Italian cortigiana female courtier, from cortigiano courtier, from corte court]
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cour•te•san
(ˈkɔr tə zən, ˈkoʊr-, ˈkɜr-)n.
a kept woman or prostitute associating with noblemen or men of wealth.
[1540–50; < Middle French courtisane < Upper Italian form of Tuscan cortigiana literally, woman of the court, derivative of corte court; for suffix see partisan1]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() kept woman, mistress, fancy woman - an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man odalisque - a woman slave in a harem |
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courtesan
noun (History) mistress, prostitute, whore, call girl, working girl (facetious slang), kept woman, harlot, paramour, scarlet woman, hetaera, demimondaine, fille de joie (French) a courtesan who was kept by some of 16th-century Venice's most powerful men
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courtesan
nounA woman who engages in sexual intercourse for payment:
bawd, call girl, camp follower, harlot, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, tart, whore.
Idioms: lady of easy virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the night.
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Translations
kéjnőkurtizán
courtisane
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courtesan
n → Kurtisane f
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