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courtesan <a courtesan; courtesans> N

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Works depicting courtesans have since been criticised for painting an idealised picture of life in the pleasure quarters.
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It makes no difference, therefore, to people who are ruined and injured, whether they live in the company of a philosopher or of a courtesan.
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To drive the point home, in the end it is only the horse, formerly a courtesan, who wants to return to her former state.
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Through this connection she began her career as a courtesan.
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In older films, the item number may be performed by a courtesan ("tawaif") dancing for a rich client or as part of a cabaret show.
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In cases like this, a courtesan was solely dependent on her benefactor or benefactors financially, making her vulnerable.
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She was serving, by this time, as a courtesan to wealthy and powerful men of the day, and she chose her lovers carefully.
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She was by profession a courtesan and some twenty years his junior.
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If she was lucky, she would become an apprentice to a high ranking courtesan.
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When referring to those who made their service as a courtesan their main source of income, success was based solely on financial management and longevity.
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