| 词汇 | harlot |
| 词源 | harlot. William the Conqueror, known in history as the Bastard, was the result of a union between Arlette or Herleva, the attractive daughter of the tanner Falbert of Falaise, and Robert le Diable, duke of Normandy—perhaps even, as the old tale says, when Robert the Devil came cantering by, saw Arlette kneeling naked washing her clothes and dismounted from his horse. But Arlette’s name doesn’t give us the word harlot, which was born long before her illegitimate son and most probably derives from the old German hari, “army,” and lot, “loiterer,” meaning “an army camp follower.” Harlot first signified a person of low birth and applied to both men and women before taking on its present meaning of a female prostitute. |
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