📚 noun • entry_id 32352
hetaera
/hɪˈtɪəɹə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hetaira • hetera
A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them.
But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the…
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