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courtesans


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Preferred Term

courtesans

Details

Prostitutes who draw their clientele from a court or from the upper classes, and whose services often include social entertaining as well as sexual activity.

Variations

courtesan

courtesan's

courtesans'

courtezans

Broader Term

prostitutes

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