英语词汇ladies of the night的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ladies of the night
词源	ladies of the night. This American euphemism for prosti- tutes was popular in the 1870s and is still used today. Interest- ing collective nouns for such ladies include: a horde of hookers, a jam of tarts, a wiggle of whores, a flourish of strumpets, an es- say of Trollope’s, an anthology of pros. See brides of the multitude.
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