hetaera

Definitions

1. A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them.
   historical
2. A mistress.

Equivalents

Examples

“But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type⟳ to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the rest⟳...”

“Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.”

“Christ appeared, only to reveal⟳ himself as the naked god Pan. Ballet of hetaerae and houris, choreography by Italo Castaldi.”

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