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strumpet

[ struhm-pit ]

noun

Older Use.
  1. a prostitute.
  2. a sexually promiscuous woman (now often used facetiously).


strumpet

/ ˈٰʌɪ /

noun

  1. archaic.
    a prostitute or promiscuous woman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ٰܳ·· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of strumpet1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English; origin uncertain
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of strumpet1

C14: of unknown origin
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O’Farrell said Hathaway has been portrayed as “an illiterate strumpet” because she was uneducated and eight years older than Shakespeare.

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Nudge one wing ever so gently aside with a fingertip, though, and you’ll reveal hindwings patterned like colorful petticoats — often striped in brown and gold, reddish or orange, a peekaboo costume befitting the brashest strumpet.

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There was no summer body positivity when I was a teen in the 80s; there was the heavenly Maria Whittaker on Page 3 and gorgeous strumpet Sabrina in the Boys Boys Boys video.

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Nor is she the sorceress and strumpet Shakespeare depicts in “Henry VI, Part 1” or the romantic lass in petticoats Mark Twain imagines in his final novel, “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.”

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Wehner recently gave an interview to the Washington Post in which he tried to signal the Trump camp that Ryan is not just some cheap ideological strumpet – he cares about conservative ideals.

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