Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Customary lewdness or prostitution in a female.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

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  • noun archaic Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

Etymologies

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French putanisme, from putain harlot.

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  • putanism. Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

    November 5, 2007