Meaning of Paphian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A prostitute.
   literary
2. A resident of Paphos.

Equivalents

Examples

“They reach'd the hotel: forth stream'd from the front door / A tide of well-clad waiters, and around / The mob stood, and as usual several score / Of those pedestrian Paphians who abound / In decent London when the daylight's o'er; / Commodious but immoral, they are found / Useful, like Malthus, in promoting marriage.”

“A smile I had learned to know elsewhere lurked at one corner of my paphian's mouth.”

“Then there is the mastus. Apollodorus the Cyrenæan, as Pamphilus says, states that this is a name given to drinking-cups by the Paphians.”

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