| 释义 |
‖ souteneur|sutənœr|
[Fr., = protector, f. soutenir to sustain.]
A man who lives on the earnings of a prostitute or prostitutes under his protection. Also transf.
1906tr. Weininger's Sex & Character ii. x. 234 The souteneur is always a criminal, a thief, a fraudulent person, or sometimes even a murderer. 1920A. Huxley Limbo 38 After midnight he would write novels with a feminine pen, earning the money that would make his unproductive male labours possible. A kind of spiritual souteneur. 1927Observer 11 Dec. 20/2 The souteneur..extends some shadowy kind of patronage and protection over the girl in return for a 50 per cent or still higher share of her earnings as prostitute. 1969Punch 26 Mar. 469/1 The death-knell of revolution in Britain was the football match between strikers and the police in 1926. It was the moment when the Russian souteneurs of the British Communist Party realised with disgust that revolutions can't be made, they have to happen. 1977M. T. Bloom 13th Man viii. 147 The underworld of traffickers, souteneurs, and prostitutes..at Buenos Aires. |