| 单词 | woman of easy virtue |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoman of easy virtue woman of easy virtue n. a sexually promiscuous woman; a prostitute; cf. lady of easy virtue n. at lady n. Phrases 3b. Π 1772 J. Dudley Memoirs 28 I was surprized to see so many fine women of easy virtue, and had scarce resolution to keep from accompanying one of them home. 1798 Monthly Mag. Suppl. No. 33, 15 July 547/1 A woman of easy virtue would not be suffered to mix with the company in the lower boxes of the theatre. 1858 W. W. Sanger Hist. Prostitution xxiii. 290 At public ceremonies, if a woman of easy virtue ventured to take precedence of a woman of honorable fame, she was immediately reminded of the impropriety of conduct by some member of the order. 1981 N.Y. Times 7 June 51/3 It is about a ‘ruined’ servant girl, grown rich as a woman of easy virtue. 2002 C. Mason Touch so Wicked iv. 63 She had no idea why the thought of Damian bedding a woman of easy virtue should bother her, but it did. < as lemmas |
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