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Procuress

noun
1.
A woman pimp.






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"Procuress" Quotes from Famous Books



... band of pirates, under an assumed name, and disguised as a black man. Jenny Driver is now his mistress (presumably he has forgotten her treachery in 'The Beggar's Opera'). Polly sails across the ocean to find him, but is entrapped by Mrs. Trapes, a procuress, who sells her to Ducat, a rich merchant. Mrs. Ducat, who is jealous, helps Polly to escape; she assumes a boy's dress and continues her search for Macheath. She is captured by the pirates, and she and Macheath meet, neither recognising the ...
— Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) • Lewis Melville



Words linked to "Procuress" :   ponce, pandar, procurer, pander, pimp, panderer, fancy man



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