Definitions for courtesans

courtesans cour·te·san

Spelling: [kawr-tuh-zuh n, kohr-, Courtesans is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1253 anagrams from letters in courtesans (acenorsstu).

Definitions for courtesans

noun

  1. a prostitute or paramour, especially one associating with noblemen or men of wealth.

Origin of courtesans

1540-50; Middle French courtisane Italian cortigiana, literally, woman of the court, derivative of corte court

Examples for courtesans

First I hated you, when I dreamed you to be but a courtesan traitress.

“I think what she is doing is an abuse of the word ‘courtesan,’” the escort says.

From the first to the last moment of her reign, she combined the courtesan with the assassin.

The Girl Who Loved Camellias by Julie Kavanagh The courtesan who seduced Paris—and inspired Dumas and La Traviata.

She killed herself in 1925 and she also may have been a courtesan, I discovered a few years ago.

Three customers have called her for appointments and, when she arrived, asked her if she was the courtesan.

In the diffident manner was nothing of the art of the courtesan.

And the monk touched with his lips the forehead of the courtesan.

The look was inspired by Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and the World War I spy Mata Hari.

For Dawson was at this time the Mecca of the gambler and the courtesan.

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