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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Tourists used to come to King’s Cross for heroin, prostitutes and the train to Scotland.—
Dominic Green,
The Washington Examiner,
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It is steeped in the history of exclusion, when Chinese women were stigmatized as prostitutes and a menace to public health.—
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16 Mar. 2026
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“Fancy women.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancy%20women. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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