harlot

• Sodom itself means burnt, evidently referring to the judgment of the city, while the word harlot (KJV) is thought to be derived from a European girl, named Arlotta (or Arletta, also known as Arlette, Herlève and Herleva) who fornicated with Robert, duke of Normandy, and to whom William The Conqueror is believed to have been born —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• These coverlets the weaver calls by the good old English name of hap-harlot, a name now obsolete in England, which I have never seen used in text of later date than Holinshead's Survey of London_, written four hundred years ago. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• Sometimes the wife-beater or the harlot was punished. —  A Pagan of the Hills
• And the people continued in the great apostasy which is called the harlot, and the monarchs were fulfilling and continue to fulfil at this time in the most tremendous manner the 16th verse of the 17th chapter of the Revelation, "making the harlot desolate and naked, eating her flesh and burning her with fire." —  Secret Enemies of True Republicanism
• For a harlot is a deep well, And an adultress is a narrow pit. —  The Makers and Teachers of Judaism

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