strumpet

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In addition to this, a strumpet was another principal character,--a most unfortunate choice in this moral day.

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  1. noun A woman prostitute.

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  • The company at supper rose immediately, and came down, entreating me in a body to refrain from putting myself and them to inconvenience for a strumpet. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • I wished him to return and confound the strumpet, and those by whom she was dictated to. —  The Confessions of J J Rousseau
  • The witnesses who appeared against him were proved to be persons of such characters as did not entitle them to much credit; a common strumpet, a woman by whom such wretches were entertained, and a man by whom they were supported. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
  • In addition to this, a strumpet was another principal character,--a most unfortunate choice in this moral day. —  The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
  • The strumpet was adored with rites divine.” —  The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English.

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  1. from Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett; origin unknown; perhaps orig. *stropete or *strupete, from Old French *strupete, vernacularly *strupee, from Latin stuprata, feminine past participle of stuprare, debauch; cf. Old French strupe, stupre, debauchery, concubinage, from Latin stuprum, debauchery, later stuprrare (later Italian strupare, stuprare = Spanish estrupar = Spanish Portuguese estuprar), debauch; cf. Greek στυφείξειν, maltreat (see stuprum, stuprate). Cf. Irish Gaelic striopach, strumpet. The English dial. strum, strumpet, is prob. an abbreviation of strumpet.
  2. from strumpet, n.
 

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