单词 | panderess |
释义 | panderessn. Now rare. A female pander; a procuress. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > procuress butcheressa1475 stew1552 bawdress1569 brokeress1582 pander1585 abbess1594 aunt1604 panderess1604 hackney womanc1616 bronstrops1617 procuress1638 provincialc1640 fruit-woman1673 flesh-broker1699 broker-woman1723 commode1725 coupleress1864 hack1864 procureuse1930 1604 J. Marston Malcontent v. ii. sig. H Thou art a weake pandres. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxxix. 362 But all in vaine, so opposite to Loue did she perseuer, As that vnto his Pandresse Arte he was enforc't to leaue her. a1652 R. Brome Mad Couple Well Match'd ii. i. sig. C6v, in Five New Playes (1653) I have ingag'd my selfe for her to be your Pandaresse. 1721 T. D'Urfey New Opera's 274 This Pandrass,..he charges to Timandra's Hand To give the Scroll. 1859 R. C. Trench Sel. Gloss. 20 Bawd once could have been applied to pandar and pandaress alike. 1947 R. Goffin & J. F. Bezou Horn of Plenty 51 Two or three heads appeared at a window, and an old panderess came to the door. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1604 |
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