Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Customary lewdness or prostitution in a female.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.
Etymologies
- French putanisme, from putain harlot. (Wiktionary)
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pavonine putanism. Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry. Nov 5, 2007