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Meaning of strumpetry | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Whoredom; prostitution.
  2. Behaviour suited to a strumpet; brazenness, sluttishness.

Examples

“However, these abandoned women had other prospects besides mere strumpetry […]”
“[…] how capitalism had taken young male proletarians to be slaughtered in wars for markets and how their sisters were thrust into strumpetry.”
““Political itching"—a reference, perhaps, to the duchess's notorious political and sexual intriguing, and carrying the implicit suggestion that her strumpetry led to her contraction of “the itch," or venereal disease.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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