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courtesan

[kawr-tuh-zuhn, kur-] / ˈkɔr tə zən, ˈkɜr- /
NOUN
mistress
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The wrestling coach at the American school in Tokyo, Ernst’s glamorous courtesan Chizuko, and many of the characters are composites.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

By making the waltz a unifying element in an opera about a courtesan, Verdi accomplished both.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

And when the Parisian crowds rolled into the Salon of 1865, they too went berserk in front of Édouard Manet’s painting of a courtesan, her maid and her high-strung black cat.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2023

His book - written from the memories his mother narrated to him - gives the reader a shockingly honest look into the life of an Indian courtesan is the mid-1900s.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2023

“Chandresh claims it is modeled after a room belonging to a courtesan in Bombay,” Marco says.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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