Meaning of Harlot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female prostitute.
   dated, derogatory, offensive
2. A female who is considered promiscuous.
   derogatory, offensive
3. A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth, especially one given to low conduct.
   obsolete

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Examples

“This day (great Duke) ſhe ſhut the doores vpon me, / While she with Harlots feaſted in my housſe.”

“The bastard of a harlot, born in a brothel, suckled on gin, and familiar from earliest infancy with all the bestialities of debauch,[…]”

“Truly, My Satan, thou art but a Dunce, / And dost not know the Garment from the Man. / Every Harlot was a Virgin once, / Nor canst thou ever change Kate into Nan.”

“He was stopped by a painted harlot, who put her hand on his arm; he pushed her violently away with brutal words.”

“O fine religious, decent folk, / In Virtue’s flaunting gold and scarlet, / I sneer between two puffs of smoke,— / Give me the publican and harlot.”

“Charlotte the Harlot show me your legs, / Charlotte the Harlot take me to bed. / Charlotte the Harlot let me see blood, / Charlotte the Harlot let me see love.”

“By suche ydle and wicked harlottes the enheritaunce of Christe is troden vnder fote.”

“When lust doth rage it like a canker frets; It topsie turvie, upside downe all sets;[…] Where once it reigneth, there it maketh sure, A man a harlot, and a wife a whoore;”

“[Take into your service] none but such as deny all ungod∣liness, and worldly lusts, and live soberly, chastely, and moderately in the Seas, and whose speech is not stinking, and unclean, as most Sea-mens are. What should you do with such Harlots in your service? which calls for holiness, and better principled men.”

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