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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Chameau, camel, was slang for an old courtesan .
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Dancing women and courtesans were forced to marry.
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He looked over his shoulder and smiled at Cecily the courtesan as she swept the porch of the church.
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Here were still the great theatres, whose promenades had been paraded by the most sublime courtesans of the age.
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Here, Drachenfels incarcerated a courtesan who displeased him, and inflicted a dreadful curse on her.
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True, she was not Warren's courtesan , but what of Benedict?
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Violetta is hardly the type to let lingering illness disrupt her lusty courtesan life.
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Was she to be regarded as a ghost, a courtesan , lost lamb, misunderstood goddess?