strumpet

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O’Farrell said Hathaway has been portrayed as “an illiterate strumpet” because she was uneducated and eight years older than Shakespeare.

From Seattle Times

Nudge one wing ever so gently aside with a fingertip, though, and you’ll reveal hindwings patterned like colorful petticoats — often striped in brown and gold, reddish or orange, a peekaboo costume befitting the brashest strumpet.

From New York Times

Neither the phrase ‘a strumpet’s fool,’ nor the assertion ‘the nobleness of life is to do thus,’ answers to the total effect of the play.

From Project Gutenberg

Few men dared to tread among Newgate’s “notorious strumpets,” but the fearless Fry reached out to Ludlow and thousands of others as one mother to another, asking with simple eloquence: “What doest thou need?”

From New York Times

Hence, strumpet! use of sin makes thee past shame.

From Project Gutenberg