A woman who procures prostitutes or illicit sexual partners for others. Obsolete. rare.
| 单词 | θ179970 |
| 释义 | society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > procuress (19) butcheressa1475 A woman who procures prostitutes or illicit sexual partners for others. Obsolete. rare. stew1552 A brothel. (Developed from sense 3, on account of the frequent use of the public hot-air bath-houses… (singular and plural.) A bawd or prostitute. Obs… bawdress1569 A woman bawd. brokeress1582 A procuress. pander1585 A go-between in clandestine love affairs; a person who provides another with the means of sexual gratification; a pimp, a procurer, esp. a male one. abbess1594 colloquial. A woman in charge of a brothel; a madam. Cf. nun, n.1 2. More fully lady abbess, mother abbess. Now historical. aunt1604 slang. A female procurer or pimp, esp. the madam of a brothel or bawdy house; (also) a female prostitute. Also as a title preceding a first name. Cf… panderess1604 A female pander; a procuress. hackney womanc1616 a woman who obtains a prostitute for a client; a procuress. bronstrops1617 A procuress or bawd. (Frequent in Middleton.) procuress1638 A woman who procures people, usually women, as prostitutes or illicit sexual partners for others. provincialc1640 slang. In extended use: a procuress. Cf. abbess, n. 2. Obsolete. rare. fruit-woman1673 = fruit-wife n. flesh-broker1699 (see quots.). broker-woman1723 commode1725 A woman who procures people as prostitutes or illicit sexual partners for others; = procuress, n. 2. Obsolete. coupleress1864 A female coupler; a woman who brings couples together. hack1864 slang. A prostitute; (also) a procuress, a pimp. Now rare. procureuse1930 = procuress, n. 2. |
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