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priestess of Venus en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (dated, euphemistic) Synonym of prostitute.
   • Many of the palki gāris used as hack cabs in Calcutta and other large towns, owned by speculators who know nothing of their business, including liquor-sellers, table-servants, and even priestesses of Venus retired from business, are drawn by scarecrows that recall in a reduced and shadowy form the outlines of Bewick's grim woodcut,—"Waiting for death." But the mercy of death is denied to them. 1891, John Lockwood Kipling, Beast and Man in India, page 214:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see priestess, of, Venus.

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Synonyms

prostitute