courtesan

Meanings

Plural: courtesans

Noun

• a woman who cohabits with an important man
• A female prostitute, especially one with high-status or wealthy clients.
• The mistress of a royal or noble.
• A woman of a royal or noble court.

Synonyms

'ho, abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, concubine, Covent Garden nun, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, Dutch widow, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, Fulham virgin, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, GRO, hackney, harlot, Haymarket ware, hireling, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, Japayuki-san, jay, karayuki-san, KTV girl, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, lot lizard, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, painted lady, Paphian, paramour, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, puta, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, tart, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl