Cléophile, the inamorata of the Spanish Ambassador, two of the most extravagant courtesans of the time, "in a pompous equipage drawn by four horses.
Footnote 34: Sir Rutherford Alcock, in his book upon Japan, states that the portraits of the most famous courtesans of Yedo are yearly hung up in the temple at Asakusa.
The common courtesans were not allowed to appear in the stola, but were compelled to wear a sort of gown, resembling the habit of the opposite sex, and which was regarded as a mark of infamy.
Courtesans in India, as in Greece, if of great beauty and accomplishments, were accorded many more privileges than the other women.
The deduction must not be made from this that all the devout are courtesans when they are young and procuresses in their ripened age.
Taking it into his head that I was jeering him, he cried out: God send mischief to all courtesans and such as favour them!
The fellow lived in a house near a place called Torre Sanguigua, next door to the lodging of one of the most fashionable courtesans in Rome, named Signora Antea.
Moreover, "in these hills the crime of infidelity among wives is almost unknown; so also harlots and courtesans are held in abhorrence amongst them.
He thought of the illustrious courtesans who had made themselves heroic in legend, women whose loves were countless and often venal, and yet whose renown had come down to posterity as gloriously as that of supreme poets.
Artists and courtesans scrutinized in silence and with haggard glances the surrounding disorder, the rooms where everything had been laid waste, at the havoc wrought by heated passions.
The courtesans made fun of those who looked unable to continue the boisterous festivity; but these wan forms revived all at once, stood in groups, and talked and smiled.
He may have been a profligate; may have consorted with gaycourtesans and thieves, yet he is still your brother and our son.
But publicans andcourtesans believed, and were baptized and now have entered in unto the feast.
The news will spread that you consort with courtesans and thieves, and men will shun you as they shun an asp.
This man who claims to be a man of God, consorts with publicans and courtesans and with the common herd of men, For shame!
These courtesans and thieves are children of my Father-God; their souls are just as precious in his sight as yours, or of the Brahmic priests.
I tell you, men, that publicans and courtesans go through the gates into the kingdom of the God of heaven, and you are left without.
The function of Aphrodite as the patroness of courtesans represents the most degraded form of her worship as the goddess of love, and is certainly of Phoenician or Eastern origin.
The same idea is expressed in the statement (quoted by Athenaeus, 569d, from Nicander of Colophon) that after Solon's time courtesans were put under the protection of Aphrodite Pandemos.
They were celebrated bycourtesans with processions, lascivious pantomimes, etc.
There are courtesans at the temples near which pilgrims congregate, and they pay part of their earnings to the temple.
For ten years they lived as courtesans to the profit of the state.
Courtesans sometimes immolated themselves in the service of the goddess.
Piraeus, the harbor of Athens, had its demi-monde quarter, and the number of courtesans in Athens and its harbor town was only surpassed by that of Corinth.
Not only the celebrated beauties made such exorbitant demands, but even the ordinarycourtesans asked prices which forbade to men of moderate means intercourse with them.
These courtesansmade an art of the life of pleasure.
Address of Heliogabalus to the assembledcourtesans of the capital, whom the Emperor harrangued as commilitones.
That the Roman courtesans wore the male toga and were therefore called togatae.
The courtesans started off at a run, but presently stopped with a smile of pity.
It glinted with a russet sheen, almost metallic, and had procured her the name of Chrysis, given her by the courtesans of Alexandria.
The courtesans of the temple crowded by hundreds along the paths of black olive trees.
Illustration] The procession seemed at an end, and the other courtesanswere about to retrace their steps when another woman, a belated arrival, was seen upon the threshold.
Finally, her Hindoo slave had taught her patiently, during seven years, the minutest details of the complex and voluptuous art of the courtesans of Palibothra.
But that courtesans whose end and resource is the bed, should venture to show themselves less beautiful in it than in the street is really inconceivable.
And I have others with me who have had more lovers than the sacred courtesans and are expert in love.
In order that the flowers in your hair may not remain amorous of you, I give them to mean courtesans who will defile them in their orgies.
The latter were forbidden to have more than a dozen of these poor creatures in their service; but twenty-two courtesans were quoted as having attained the maximum.
Thirty courtesans advanced, bearing baskets of flowers, snow-white doves with red feet, veils of the most fragile azure, and precious ornaments.
That is why I tell you, Chrysis, Bacchis, Seso, Faustina, that it is a just law of the gods which decrees that courtesans shall be the eternal desire of lovers and the eternal envy of virtuous spouses.
Burchard tells us how, for the amusement of Cesare, of the Pope, and of Lucrezia, these fifty courtesans were set to dance after supper with the servants and some others who were present, dressed at first and afterwards not so.
The improbabilities of the saturnalia of the fifty courtesans pale before the almost utter impossibility of this narrative.
I am overjoyed that this happiness has befallen him through my agency; although other courtesans would not have similar feelings; nor, indeed, is it to our interest that any lover should find pleasure in matrimony.
No doubt Æthiopian or negro slaves were much prized by the great, and those courtesans whose object it was to ape their manners.
The business at present is this: I must make his wife return home to Pamphilus; should I effect that, I shall not regret its being reported that I have been the only one to do what othercourtesans avoid doing.
Eugraphius, however, would understand the expression literally, observing that courtesans usually had near their doors an altar sacred to Venus, on which they daily sacrificed.
And are you to be patching up amours with Courtesans by marriage?
Courtesans wore jewels and purple robes,[118] and not a few boldly concealed their profligacy under the stola.
Retired courtesans often combined the manufacture of these supposed charms with the business of a midwife.
It has been imagined, from certain obscure passages in Greek authors, that the courtesans formed several corporations, each of which was responsible for the acts of all its members.
Upon the character and life of courtesans in his day he throws but little light.
On stopping at a tavern, it is customary for the courtesans of the house to come out, painted and bedizened, and set forth the claims of their house to the traveler's patronage, exhibiting themselves as one of the items of the bill of fare.
About three fourths of the courtesans of this grade are natives of the United States, and mostly from New England or the Middle States.
Egypt was famous for her courtesans before the time of Herodotus.
To the population of London less danger would inure from this toleration than from the unknown, unwatched courtesans who haunt their streets.
Footnote 25: The public women, or courtesans (Vesya), of the early Hindoos have often been compared with the Hetera of the Greeks.
By having intercourse with men courtesans obtain sexual pleasure, as well as their own maintenance.
But Vatsyayana decides that desire of wealth, freedom from misfortune, and love, are the only causes that affect the union of courtesans with men.
All the above kinds of courtesans are acquainted with various kinds of men, and should consider the ways of getting money from them, of pleasing them, of separating themselves from them, and of re-uniting with them.
The Hindoos have ever had the good sense to recognise courtesans as a part and portion of human society, and so long as they behaved themselves with decency and propriety, they were regarded with a certain respect.
The gains of other courtesans are to be spent as follows: Having a white dress to wear every day; getting sufficient food and drink to satisfy hunger and thirst; eating daily a perfumed Tambula, i.
There are Duchesses de Rosas who will look on you, as you pass, over their plaited collars, and as there were neither adulteresses nor courtesans among them, they will probably ask what the Parisian is doing among them.
What difference would Rosas have found between her and the fashionablecourtesans whom he had loved, or rather, enriched, in passing?
She lived like the free, poor courtesans whom the Athenian youths called "she-wolves" on account of their howling.
The name of Bacchis, which had been given her when she was little, had been borne by many famous courtesans of Greece.
I have heard of her, a Greek as famous for her beauty and her talent as the courtesans of Athens.
In broad daylight the great courtesans appeared there, almost nude, wearing purple sandals, wrapped in flowered mantles, wearing crowns of fresh roses on their hair, powdered with gold.
Frequently they fled in mad race on recognizing the official whose duty it was to collect the pornikontelos, a tax imposed by Solon upon the courtesans and one which constituted the largest revenue of Athens.
The words were no sooner out of her mouth than Jarnonville pushed the two courtesans roughly aside and left the card room, muttering in a hollow voice: "No child!
You would have done better not to mix with a company of courtesansand rakes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "courtesans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
