| 单词 | temple prostitute |
| 释义 | > as lemmastemple prostitute temple prostitute n. a woman maintained by a temple, who performs rituals of a sexual nature (cf. devadasi n.); also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > prostitution > [noun] > participant in temple prostitute1890 1890 A. B. Ellis Eὡe-speaking Peoples ix. 141 Girls dedicated to a god do not necessarily serve him during the whole of their lives... In Dahomi there seems to be a marked distinction between those who actually minister to the service of the temple, and those who are merely temple prostitutes. 1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 28 Private rites of magic send The temple prostitutes to sleep. 1980 S. T. Haymon Death & Pregnant Virgin xi. 84 Poor old Charlie! Thought he'd recruited a vestal virgin when what he'd got was a temple prostitute! < as lemmas |
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