| 单词 | to play the strumpet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play the strumpet to play the strumpet: to commit adultery or fornication; to prostitute oneself; to behave in a sexually promiscuous, lascivious, or provocative manner. Also figurative.Now chiefly in historical fiction. ΚΠ 1567 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie against Masse f. 184v I haue heard Lawiers say, that if whiles she is in prison, she play the strompet againe, by Lawe the iudge may denie her the benefite of her belly, and geue sentence of death vpon her. 1760 G. A. Stevens Hist. Tom Fool II. xvi. 138 What, bring Fellows for her filthy Intrigues into my House; if she had a Mind to play the Strumpet, cou'dn't she do it at Home? 1880 Public Health Rep. & Papers 1879 (Amer. Public Health Assoc.) 5 58 Even little girls openly play the strumpet in the public streets of Boston and New York. 1999 B. Small Bedazzled xviii. 306 You..played the strumpet before the whole court with Prince Henry. < as lemmas |
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