courtesan

n.

（专与高级官员往来的）妓女，情妇；

复数：courtesans

1. There, the courtesan faded imperceptibly.
   妓女的形象在这里渐渐消失了。
2. But when God allows a courtesan to fall in love, her love, which at first looks like a pardon for her sins, proves almost invariably to be a punishment on her.
   再说天主允许一个妓女萌发爱情的时候，这个爱情，开始时好像是一个宽恕，后来几乎总是变成一种对她的惩罚。

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The honest courtesan : Veronica Franco, citizen and writer in sixteenth-century Venice
The Status of Pleasure: Courtesan and Literati Connections in T'ang China (618-907)
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret Rosenthal
The Globalization of Organized Crime, the Courtesan State, and the Corruption of Civil Society
When God Is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Kṣetrayya and Others by A. K. Ramanujan; Velcheru Narayana Rao; David Shulman
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