courtesan
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In his 18th opera, Giuseppe Verdi provocatively made the lead role a courtesan in contemporary Paris.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
In the late 2000s, the courtesan culture had completely vanished and Rekhabai left the kotha to live in her apartment in Kolkata.
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2023
The film, by French actor and director Maïwenn Le Besco, known as Maïwenn, chronicles the life of French courtesan Madame du Barry, who climbed the social ladder at Versailles to become the king's favourite.
From Reuters • May 17, 2023
Her father was out of the picture and her mother, a Parisian courtesan, had shuttled her daughter around France — to a boarding school, a countryside nursery, a nunnery.
From New York Times • May 11, 2023
Govinda once spent a rest period with some other monks in the pleasure grove which Kamala, the courtesan, had once presented to the followers of Gotama.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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