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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The mothers were usually poor women or prostitutes, the children generally given up for adoption to orphanages, many of them run by foreign missionaries.—
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Outside a tent, Dunk is told, by two of the show’s jaded yet cheerful prostitutes, that Ser Manfred is busy napping.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2026
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