as in prostitutes
a woman who engages in sexual activities for money
another movie featuring an Old West saloon scene with the requisite gamblers, gunslingers, and tarts
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Recent Examples of tarts
Breakfast is a buffet of cereals, meats, cheeses, fruit, and pastries (Spier’s pasteis de nata, Portuguese custard tarts, are a must-try).
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Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
Part of the retailer’s fan-favorite German food line, these tarts feature a buttery pastry crust filled with rich almond frangipane and layered with thin slices of apple.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
For dessert, guests selected from a dessert station filled with with an assortment of sweet treats, including cookies, brownies, key lime bites and fruit tarts.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The shelves inside boast an array of bread loaves, croissants, tarts and other treats.
—Amber Carlson, Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2025
Have a cold plate with a scoop, serve up chicken salad on tarts, or slather onto fresh bread for the best lunch of your week.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
Food Our Tarts, Ourselves Chris Randle Butter tarts are strangely modest in their excess, a two-dollar decadence.
—hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Expect riffs on local classics like swordfish curry puffs, trout-roe egg tarts, and lobster noodles made partially from fish bones.
—Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2024
The savory and the sweet Kahn has tinkered with galette-style tarts at Destroyer over the years.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
Part of the retailer’s fan-favorite German food line, these tarts feature a buttery pastry crust filled with rich almond frangipane and layered with thin slices of apple.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
For dessert, guests selected from a dessert station filled with with an assortment of sweet treats, including cookies, brownies, key lime bites and fruit tarts.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The shelves inside boast an array of bread loaves, croissants, tarts and other treats.
—Amber Carlson, Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2025
Have a cold plate with a scoop, serve up chicken salad on tarts, or slather onto fresh bread for the best lunch of your week.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
Food Our Tarts, Ourselves Chris Randle Butter tarts are strangely modest in their excess, a two-dollar decadence.
—hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Expect riffs on local classics like swordfish curry puffs, trout-roe egg tarts, and lobster noodles made partially from fish bones.
—Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2024
The savory and the sweet Kahn has tinkered with galette-style tarts at Destroyer over the years.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tarts
prostitutes
Noun
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The only things shaky about Relish are the junkies, prostitutes, suicidal depressives, and sinners who populate Osborne's songs.—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Serial killer Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard was convicted in 2007 for killing six women in Kansas City but is believed to have raped and strangled two girls and 11 women, most of whom had worked as prostitutes, from 1977 to 1993.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
7 Aug. 2025
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