noun
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A woman of a royal or noble court.
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The mistress of a royal or noble.
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A female prostitute, especially one with high-status or wealthy clients.
Examples of courtesan in a Sentence
Subsequently she lived as a courtesan under the name of Mdlle Lange.
In 1911, a young republican activist visits a beautiful courtesan.
The Opera is inspired by Alexandre Dumas's celebrated novel about a tragic love story of a sick Parisian courtesan.
Lois has transgressed against the behavior expected of her gender and class just as much as if she had indeed become a courtesan.
The illustration shows the opening scene in the house of Violetta Valery, a young Parisian courtesan.
It was stormed and taken by the Athenians in 415 B.C., and the inhabitants, among them the famous courtesan Lais, sold as slaves.
She was a courtesan of the superior class, somewhat older than Propertius, but, as it seems, a woman of singular beauty and varied accomplishments.
She was a celebrated dancer and courtesan, who, in the full flower of her beauty and guilty sovereignty over the youth of Antioch, was suddenly converted by the influence of the holy bishop Nonnus, whom she had heard preaching in front of a church which she was passing with her gay train of attendants and admirers.
One of her brothers, Charaxus, fell in love with a courtesan named Doricha upon whom he squandered his property.