hetaera

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Aspasia took advantage of this and became a hetaera, or really high class hooker.

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  • They all knew that aristocratic Athenian women stayed close to home and that only a high class hetaera, which Selkine's earrings, expensive linen chiton, and lustrous dark curls over her shoulders announced her to be, would have traveled openly. —  AHMM,June2006
  • Aspasia took advantage of this and became a hetaera, or really high class hooker. —  Cracked: All Posts
  • Not a slut, but what is a hetaera; and not a hetaera, but what is well-nigh Kypris herself! —  Yama: the pit
  • The godlike Xenocrates showed this by the firmness of his reason, who was declared by the famous hetaera Phryne to be a statue and not a man, when all her blandishments could not shake his resolve, as Valerius Maximus relates at length. —  The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
  • Further, in the more and more unfinished parts of the book, she levants for a time with the young duke, quits him, becomes a professional hetaera in Paris, but never takes any fancy to the business of her avocation till she meets an all-conquering criminal, Valbayre. [ —  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
 

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  1. Greek hetaira, feminine of hetairos, companion; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.
 

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