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Woman of the street   /wˈʊmən əv ðə strit/   Listen
Woman of the street

noun
1.
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.  Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, working girl.






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"Woman of the street" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be more Spaniard than German, and she was graceful and lithe even in the exceedingly shapeless costume of blue print that she wore. She was less deft than either of her associates but very willing and eager. As between the three—the noblewoman, the working woman and the woman of the street—the medical officials in charge made no distinction whatsoever. Why should they? In this sisterhood of mercy they all three stood upon the same common ground. I never knew that slop jars were noble things ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb

... been accepted, and on the eve of his departure for the North, when returning, one night, to his lodgings, he was accosted by a woman of the street. Her face seemed familiar, and he asked her name. She answered, 'Rosey Preston.' He went with her to her home—a miserable room in the third story of a tumbledown shanty in Chartres street—and there found her child, a bright little fellow of about six years. With them, ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... for silence. There was a low, half-timid rap at the door. It created the impression of some woman of the street. ...
— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray



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