harlot:
(plural: ‘harlots‘)
harlots of the past
a woman who has sex for money;
a prostitute;
a call girl;
a woman thought to behave like a prostitute,
harlots of the present
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In the religious scriptures, a harlot is described as a woman of indecent qualities, or rather immoral qualities, yet revered or ‘kept’ by the gentry, including the religious and political heads of those times.
Some language experts feel that calling someone a harlot is a nice way saying that she’s a prostitute.
For an article that discusses the ‘harlot’ mentioned in the Bible, please click here, (for a very serious piece of writing about the harlots and lavish lifestyle of popes and bishops in the middle ages, please click here), for a piece of serious political article about politicians being compared with harlots, please click here and for a blog post about a series names ‘Harlots, wife…’, please click here.
