lady of pleasure

Questions about lady of pleasure

What does lady of pleasure mean?

lady of pleasure means "a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money".

What is another word for lady of pleasure?

Close synonyms include prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lady of pleasure a common word?

lady of pleasure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.