Meaning of bona roba | Babel Free

Definitions

An attractive woman, especially one who is sexually available; a prostitute or courtesan.

obsolete

Examples

“And is Jane Nightwork alive? […] By the mass, I could anger her to th' heart. She was then a bona-roba. Doth she hold her own well?”

“A fine strapping bona roba, in the Chartres taste, but well-limbed, clear-complexioned, and Turkish-eyed; thou the first man with her, or made to believe so, which is the same thing […].”

“For he assured me that now he possessed very large experience, for so small a matter; being thoroughly acquainted with women of every class, from ladies of the highest blood, to Bona-robas, and peasants’ wives: and that they all might be divided into three heads and no more; that is to say as follows.”

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