lady of pleasure
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A female prostitute or courtesan.
Example Sentences
- "I instructed her with all those things which a Lady of Pleasure ought to know, for the heaping up a Sum of Money wherewith she may maintain her self during her Old Age."
- "By 1765, a visitor to London noted that prints of celebrated ladies of pleasure were both extraordinarily cheap (‘a few guineas will buy a whole seraglio’) and were issued in huge editions, of three or four thousand at a time."