Meaning of hetaera | Babel Free

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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