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fancy women

noun

plural of fancy woman

as in women of easy virtue

a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman in those days a woman who acted on stage was often thought of as a fancy woman

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prostitutes

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Instead of collectivity, there is a certain kind of animal community, or one that the poems’ speakers—children, old men, drunks, prostitutes—often stand apart from.

— Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
They were all also alleged to have been prostitutes, though recent scholarship has challenged that assertion.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026

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