as in women of easy virtue
a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman
in pirate tales there's always the raucous tavern and its cadre of buxom queans
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Noun
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Legalized prostitution enables and legitimizes the degradation of human beings, especially women who make up the majority of prostitutes.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
24 Feb. 2026 -
The mothers were usually poor women or prostitutes, the children generally given up for adoption to orphanages, many of them run by foreign missionaries.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Air sirens repeatedly alerted the residents of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to seek shelter.—
Robin Wright,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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As air‑raid sirens sound across Israeli cities, warning civilians to take shelter, Palestinian communities in the West Bank have nowhere to go.—
Fadwa Hodali,
Bloomberg,
8 Mar. 2026
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“Queans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queans. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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