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Definition of Courtezan
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Courtezan
Literary usage of Courtezan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghoṣa (1921)
"When he has gone but a little way, he is kicked by a young heifer and killed.
7 a. Story of the Past : The four youths and the courtezan. ..."
2. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"(which was the name of his mistress,) leads us to believe, that the Greek comedies
sometimes represented, not merely the general character of the courtezan, ..."
3. Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1836)
"In Mrs. Armstead, successively his mistress and his wife, we find imperfectly
realized the celebrated Ionian courtezan, whom Pericles loved, ..."
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