📚 noun • entry_id 30871
procuress
/pɹəˈkjʊəɹɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alcahueta
A middlewoman: a woman who performs as a go-between, an intermediary.
alcahueta • celestina
A female procurer.
Old witches in the cities and country-side throve upon the sale of death spells and love philtres. They also made a trade of abortificants, and frequently practised the whiles of t…
The Spaniard, who will seduce any girl he can, is pitiless under like circumstances to his own womenkind; so there is much weeping, the girl is turned out of doors and falls readil…
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