procuress
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The cases of the gambler and the procuress did not excite Atlantic County interest as examples of routine viciousness, but as the first definite results of an unusually elaborate crusade conducted by a newspaper.
From Time Magazine Archive
The divine art is a soulless procuress; she takes your youth, your beauty and your virtue.
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
It represents the steadfastness of the maiden Melibaea against the entreaties of her lover Calisto and the much more crafty, indeed almost successful, wiles of the procuress, Celestine.
From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
A parasite and procuress are standing characters in all.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
Such writers do not understand that nothing does or can exist except the ideal; nor is their art-philosophy other than "procuress to the lords of hell."
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
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