| 词汇 | lady of pleasure |
| 词源 | lady of pleasure. James Shirley’s play The Lady of Pleasure (1635) may have suggested this term for a prostitute, but the lady in the play was not a shady lady. Shirley’s play was about “the cure of a wife’s desire for a life of fashionable folly by her husband’s feigning to engage in gambling and intrigue.” Never- theless, lady of pleasure took its present meaning not long after the play was produced. |
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