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A courtesan was originally a courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person. [1]

190 relations: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Agnès Sorel, Alexandre Dumas, fils, Alice Keppel, Alliance (Firefly), Almeh, Amrapali, Anne Boleyn, Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Anne Rice, Aphra Behn, Arhat, Arib al-Ma'muniyya, Aspasia, Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, ‘Inān, Émile Zola, Baldassare Castiglione, Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Baz Luhrmann, Bianca (Othello), Blanche d'Antigny, Bollywood, Byzantine Empire, Ca trù, Call girl, Cardinal Richelieu, Carl Michael Bellman, Catherine McCormack, Catherine Walters, Charles II of England, Charles IX of France, Charles VII of France, Chevalier, Cicisbeo, Clara Ward, Princesse de Caraman-Chimay, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Coco Chanel, Cora Pearl, Court (royal), Courtier, Courtship, Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, Dangerous Beauty, Devdas, Diane de Poitiers, Diaochan, Dora Levy Mossanen, Dorothea Jordan, ..., Eastern Orthodox Church, Edward IV of England, Eliza Lynch, Empire of Japan, England, Eponym, Euphemism, Eva Perón, Ewan McGregor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Fadl Ashsha'ira, Fanny Hill, Favourite, Feudalism, Firefly (TV series), Françoise de Foix, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, France, Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey, Francis I of France, Gautama Buddha, Geisha, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, Gigi, Giuseppe Verdi, Government, Grace Elliott, Grisette (person), Harriette Wilson, Henry II of France, Henry III of France, Henry VIII of England, Hermann Hesse, Hetaira, Honoré de Balzac, Hwang Jini, In Search of Lost Time, Indian literature, Indira Varma, Italian Renaissance, Jacqueline Carey, James IV of Scotland, Jane Shore, John Cleland, John Webster, Joseon, Joss Whedon, Justinian I, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, Katharina Schratt, Kathleen Rockwell, Kisaeng, Kitty Fisher, Kushiel's Legacy, La Belle Otero, La Dame aux Camélias, La Païva, La rondine, La traviata, Lais of Corinth, Lais of Hyccara, Liane de Pougy, Lillie Langtry, List of Firefly characters, List of Rurouni Kenshin characters, Loanword, Lola Montez, Louis XIV of France, Louis XV of France, Louis, Grand Condé, Louise de La Vallière, Louise Julie de Mailly, Lucy Walter, Madame de Pompadour, Madame du Barry, Margaret Drummond (mistress), Marie Anne de Mailly, Marie Duplessis, Marie Touchet, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Marion Delorme, Mary Boleyn, Mass Effect, Mata Hari, Mathilde Kschessinska, Mira Nair, Mistress (lover), Monarchy, Moulin Rouge!, Nagarvadhu, Nana (novel), Nell Gwyn, Nicole Kidman, Ninon de l'Enclos, Oiran, Othello, Pakeezah, Pamela Harriman, Paolo Veronese, Patsy Cornwallis-West, Pericles, Phryne, Pietro Aretino, Pilegesh, Promiscuity, Prostitution, Qiyan, Rekha, Renaissance, Rome, Royal mistress, Rurouni Kenshin, Sacred prostitution, Saint, Sarah Dunant, Shamakhi dancers, Shāriyah, Siddhartha (novel), Sophia Baddeley, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, Støvlet-Cathrine, Su Xiaoxiao, Susan Griffin, Sycophant, Thaïs, The Book of the Courtier, The Rover (play), The Vampire Armand, The White Devil, Theodora (6th century), Three Kingdoms, Tullia d'Aragona, Ulla Winblad, Umrao Jaan, Umrao Jaan Ada, Vaishali (ancient city), Veronica Franco, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, William Shakespeare, Yiji. Expand index (140 more) »

A Great and Terrible Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty is the first novel in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray.

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Agnès Sorel

Agnès Sorel (1422 – 9 February 1450), known by the sobriquet Dame de beauté (Lady of Beauty), was a favourite, and chief mistress, of King Charles VII of France, by whom she bore three daughters.

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Alexandre Dumas, fils

Alexandre Dumas, fils (27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's opera, La traviata (The Fallen Woman), as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled Camille in English-language versions.

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Alice Keppel

Alice Frederica Keppel (née Edmonstone; 29 April 186811 September 1947) was a British society hostess and a long-time mistress of King Edward VII.

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Alliance (Firefly)

The Alliance is a fictional corporate supergovernment in the ''Firefly'' franchise, a powerful authoritarian government and law-enforcement organization that controls the majority of territory within the known universe.

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Almeh

Almeh (عالمة, plural عوالم, from Arabic: علم "to know, be learned") was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily, connected to the qayna slave singers of pre-Islamic Arabia.

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Amrapali

Āmrapālī, also known as "Ambapālika" or "Ambapali", was a celebrated nagarvadhu (royal courtesan) of the republic of Vaishali (located in present-day Bihar) in ancient India around 500 BC.

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Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn (1501 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII.

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Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly

Anna Jeanne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Duchess of Étampes (15081580), was a chief mistress of Francis I of France.

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Anne Rice

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica.

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Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn (14 December 1640? (baptismal date)–16 April 1689) was a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era.

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Arhat

Theravada Buddhism defines arhat (Sanskrit) or arahant (Pali) as "one who is worthy" or as a "perfected person" having attained nirvana.

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Arib al-Ma'muniyya

‘Arīb al-Ma’mūnīya (عريب المأمونية, b. 181/797-98, d. 277/890-91) was a qayna (slave trained in the arts of entertainment) of the early Abbasid period, who has been characterised as 'the most famous slave singer to have ever resided at the Baghdad court'.

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Aspasia

Aspasia (Ἀσπασία; c. 470 BCD. Nails, The People of Plato, Hackett Publishing pp 58–59 – c. 400 BC)A.E. Taylor, Plato: The Man and his Work, 41 was an influential immigrant to Classical-era Athens who was the lover and partner of the statesman Pericles.

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Assassin's Creed II

Assassin's Creed II is a 2009 action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.

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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is a 2010 action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.

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‘Inān

‘Inān bint ‘Abd-Allāh (عِنان, d. 841) was a prominent female poet of the Abbasid period, even characterised by the tenth-century historian Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahāni as the slave-woman poet of foremost significance in the Arabic tradition.

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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Baldassare Castiglione

Baldassare Castiglione (December 6, 1478 – February 2, 1529),Dates of birth and death, and cause of the latter, from, Italica, Rai International online.

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Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (– 9 October 1709), more often known by her maiden name Barbara Villiers or her title of Countess of Castlemaine, was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledged and subsequently ennobled.

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Baz Luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann (born Mark Anthony Luhrmann, 17 September 1962) is an Australian writer, director, and producer with projects spanning film, television, opera, theatre, music, and recording industries.

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Bianca (Othello)

Bianca is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's Othello (c. 1601–1604).

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Blanche d'Antigny

Blanche d'Antigny (May 9, 1840 – June 30, 1874) was a French singer and actress whose fame today rests chiefly on the fact that Émile Zola used her as the principal model for his novel Nana.

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Bollywood

Hindi cinema, often metonymously referred to as Bollywood, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium).

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Ca trù

Ca trù ("tally card songs") also known as hát ả đào or hát nói, is an ancient genre of chamber music featuring female vocalists, with origins in northern Vietnam.

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Call girl

A call girl or female escort is a sex worker who (unlike a street walker) does not display her profession to the general public; nor does she usually work in an institution like a brothel, although she may be employed by an escort agency.

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Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (9 September 15854 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu (Cardinal de Richelieu), was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman.

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Carl Michael Bellman

Carl Michael Bellman (4 February 1740 – 11 February 1795) was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer.

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Catherine McCormack

Catherine Jane McCormack (born 3 April 1972) is an English actress of stage and screen.

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Catherine Walters

Catherine Walters, also known as "Skittles" (13 June 1839 – 4 August 1920), was a fashion trendsetter and one of the last of the great courtesans of Victorian London.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Charles IX of France

Charles IX (27 June 1550 – 30 May 1574) was a French monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1560 until his death from tuberculosis.

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Charles VII of France

Charles VII (22 February 1403 – 22 July 1461), called the Victorious (le Victorieux)Charles VII, King of France, Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War, ed.

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Chevalier

Chevalier may refer to.

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Cicisbeo

In 18th- and 19th-century Italy, the cicisbeo (plural: cicisbei), or cavalier servente (chevalier servant in French), was the professed gallant and perhaps lover in a sexual sense of a married woman, who attended her at public entertainments, to church and other occasions and had privileged access to his mistress.

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Clara Ward, Princesse de Caraman-Chimay

Clara Ward (17 June 1873 – 9 December 1916) was a wealthy American socialite who married a prince from Belgium.

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Claudine Guérin de Tencin

Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (27 April 1682 – 4 December 1749) was a French salonist and author.

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Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and a business woman.

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Cora Pearl

Cora Pearl (1835–8 July 1886), born Eliza Emma Crouch or Emma Elizabeth Crouch, was a nineteenth-century courtesan of the French demimonde who enjoyed her greatest celebrity during the period of the Second French Empire.

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Court (royal)

A court is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure.

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Courtier

A courtier is a person who is often in attendance at the court of a monarch or other royal personage.

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Courtship

Courtship is the period of development towards an intimate relationship wherein people (usually a couple) get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement or other romantic arrangement.

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Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick

Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick (née Maynard; 10 December 1861 – 26 July 1938) was a campaigning socialist who supported many schemes to aid the less well off in education, housing, employment and pay.

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Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty is a 1998 American biographical drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz and starring Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, and Oliver Platt.

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Devdas

Devdas (দেবদাস, transliterated as Debdās) is a 1917 Bengali romance novel written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

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Diane de Poitiers

Diane de Poitiers (3 September 1499 – 25 April 1566) was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of king Francis I and his son, King Henry II of France.

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Diaochan

Diaochan was one of the Four Beauties of ancient China.

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Dora Levy Mossanen

Dora Levy Mossanen (born December 28, 1945) is an American author of historical fiction.

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Dorothea Jordan

Dorothea Jordan (22 November 17615 July 1816) also known as Mrs Jordan, was an Anglo-Irish actress, courtesan, and the mistress and companion of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom, for 20 years while he was Duke of Clarence.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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Edward IV of England

Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was the King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death.

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Eliza Lynch

Eliza Alice Lynch Lloyd (Cork, Ireland, 19 November 1833 – Paris, France, 25 July 1886) was an Irish woman, the mistress-wife of Francisco Solano López, president of Paraguay.

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Empire of Japan

The was the historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eponym

An eponym is a person, place, or thing after whom or after which something is named, or believed to be named.

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Euphemism

A euphemism is a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant.

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Eva Perón

Eva María Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.

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Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor (born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor, known internationally for his various film roles, including independent dramas, science-fiction epics, and musicals.

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Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Ezio Auditore da Firenze is an assassin in the video game series Assassin's Creed.

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Fadl Ashsha'ira

Fadl Ashsha'ira (فضل الشاعرة, d. 871 CE) was one of 'three early ‘Abbasid singing girls...

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Fanny Hill

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill, an anglicisation of the Latin mons veneris, mound of Venus) is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748.

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Favourite

A favourite or favorite (American English) was the intimate companion of a ruler or other important person.

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Feudalism

Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.

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Firefly (TV series)

Firefly is an American space Western drama television series which ran from 2002–2003, created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label.

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Françoise de Foix

Françoise de Foix, Comtesse de Châteaubriant (c. 1495 – 16 October 1537) was a chief mistress of Francis I of France.

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Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan

Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), better known as Madame de Montespan, was the most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XIV of France, by whom she had seven children.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey

Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (née Twysden; 25 February 1753 – 23 July 1821) was one of the more notorious of the many mistresses of King George IV when he was Prince of Wales, "a scintillating society woman, a heady mix of charm, beauty, and sarcasm".

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Francis I of France

Francis I (François Ier) (12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was the first King of France from the Angoulême branch of the House of Valois, reigning from 1515 until his death.

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Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

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Geisha

(),, or are Japanese women who study the ancient tradition of art, dance and singing, and are distinctively characterized by traditional costumes and makeup.

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George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros, (30 January 1628 – 16 April 1687) was an English statesman and poet.

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Gigi

Gigi is a 1944 novella by French writer Colette.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.

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Grace Elliott

Grace Dalrymple Elliott (c. 1754–16 May 1823) was a Scottish courtesan, writer and spy who resided in Paris at the time of the French Revolution.

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Grisette (person)

The word grisette (sometimes spelled grizette) has referred to a French working-class woman from the late 17th century and remained in common use through the Belle Époque era, albeit with some modifications to its meaning.

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Harriette Wilson

Harriette Wilson (2 February 1786 – 10 March 1845) is the author of The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: Written by Herself (1825).

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Henry II of France

Henry II (Henri II; 31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559) was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 31 March 1547 until his death in 1559.

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Henry III of France

Henry III (19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589; born Alexandre Édouard de France, Henryk Walezy, Henrikas Valua) was King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1573 to 1575 and King of France from 1574 until his death.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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Hermann Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter.

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Hetaira

Hetaira (plural hetairai, also hetaera (plural hetaerae), (ἑταίρα, "companion", pl. ἑταῖραι) was a type of prostitute in ancient Greece. Traditionally, historians of ancient Greece have distinguished between hetairai and pornai, another class of prostitute in ancient Greece. In contrast to pornai, who provided sex for a large number of clients in brothels or on the street, hetairai were thought to have had only a few men as clients at any one time, to have had long-term relationships with them, and to have provided companionship and intellectual stimulation as well as sex. For instance, Charles Seltman wrote in 1953 that "hetaeras were certainly in a very different class, often highly educated women". More recently, however, historians have questioned the extent to which there was really a distinction between hetairai and pornai. The second edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, for instance, held that hetaira was a euphemism for any kind of prostitute. This position is supported by Konstantinos Kapparis, who holds that Apollodorus' famous tripartite division of the types of women in the speech Against Neaera ("We have courtesans for pleasure, concubines for the daily tending of the body, and wives in order to beget legitimate children and have a trustworthy guardian of what is at home.") classes all prostitutes together, under the term hetairai. A third position, advanced by Rebecca Futo Kennedy, suggests that hetairai "were not prostitutes or even courtesans". Instead, she argues, hetairai were "elite women who participated in sympotic and luxury culture", just as hetairoi – the masculine form of the word – was used to refer to groups of elite men at symposia. Even when the term hetaira was used to refer to a specific class of prostitute, though, scholars disagree on what precisely the line of demarcation was. Kurke emphasises that hetairai veiled the fact that they were selling sex through the language of gift-exchange, while pornai explicitly commodified sex. She claims that both hetairai and pornai could be slaves or free, and might or might not work for a pimp. Kapparis says that hetairai were high-class prostitutes, and cites Dover as pointing to the long-term nature of hetairai's relationships with individual men. Miner disagrees with Kurke, claiming that hetairai were always free, not slaves. Along with sexual services, women described as hetairai rather than pornai seem to have often been educated, and have provided companionship. According to Kurke, the concept of hetairism was a product of the symposium, where hetairai were permitted as sexually available companions of the male party-goers. In Athenaeus' Deipnosophistai, hetairai are described as providing "flattering and skillful conversation": something which is, elsewhere in classical literature, seen as a significant part of the hetaira's role. Particularly, "witty" and "refined" (αστεία) were seen as attributes which distinguished hetairai from common pornai. Hetairai are likely to have been musically educated, too. Free hetairai could become very wealthy, and control their own finances. However, their careers could be short, and if they did not earn enough to support themselves, they might have been forced to resort to working in brothels, or working as pimps, in order to ensure a continued income as they got older.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.

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Hwang Jini

Hwang Jini or Hwang Jin-Yi (c. 1506 – c. 1560), also known by her gisaeng name Myeongwol ("bright moon", 명월), was one of the most famous gisaeng of the Joseon Dynasty.

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In Search of Lost Time

In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu) – previously also translated as Remembrance of Things Past – is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871–1922).

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Indian literature

Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter.

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Indira Varma

Indira Anne Varma (born 27 September 1973) is a British actress.

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Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century (Trecento) and lasted until the 17th century (Seicento), marking the transition between Medieval and Modern Europe.

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Jacqueline Carey

Jacqueline A. Carey (born October 9, 1964) is an American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction.

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James IV of Scotland

James IV (17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513) was the King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 to his death.

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Jane Shore

Elizabeth "Jane" Shore (née Lambert) (c.1445 – c.1527) was one of the many mistresses of King Edward IV of England, one of three whom he described as "the merriest, the wiliest, and the holiest harlots" in his realm.

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John Cleland

John Cleland (baptised 24 September 1709 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.

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John Webster

John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.

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Joseon

The Joseon dynasty (also transcribed as Chosŏn or Chosun, 조선; officially the Kingdom of Great Joseon, 대조선국) was a Korean dynastic kingdom that lasted for approximately five centuries.

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Joss Whedon

Joseph Hill Whedon (born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer.

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Justinian I

Justinian I (Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus Augustus; Flávios Pétros Sabbátios Ioustinianós; 482 14 November 565), traditionally known as Justinian the Great and also Saint Justinian the Great in the Eastern Orthodox Church, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565.

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Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

Kamafl Sutra: A Tale of Love is a 1996 Indian English-language historical romance film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Mira Nair.

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Katharina Schratt

Katharina Schratt (11 September 1853 – 17 April 1940) was an Austrian actress who became "the uncrowned Empress of Austria" as a confidante of Emperor Franz Joseph.

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Kathleen Rockwell

Kathleen Eloise Rockwell (1873 – February 21, 1957), best known as "Klondike Kate", and later known as Kate Rockwell Warner Matson Van Duren, gained her fame as a dancer and vaudeville star during the Klondike Gold Rush, where she met Alexander Pantages who later became a very successful vaudeville/motion picture mogul.

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Kisaeng

Kisaeng, sometimes called ginyeo, were enslaved women who worked to entertain others, such as yangbans and kings, during the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties.

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Kitty Fisher

Kitty Fisher (1741–1767) was a prominent British courtesan.

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Kushiel's Legacy

Kushiel's Legacy is a series of fantasy novels by Jacqueline Carey, comprising the Phèdre Trilogy and the Imriel Trilogy (called the "Treason's Heir" trilogy in the United Kingdom).

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La Belle Otero

Carolina “La Belle” Otero (b. 4 November 1868 Valga, Galicia – d. 12 April 1965 Nice) was a Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan.

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La Dame aux Camélias

La Dame aux Camélias (literally The Lady with the Camellias, commonly known in English as Camille) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, ''fils'', first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage.

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La Païva

Esther Lachmann (7 May 181921 January 1884), generally known as La Païva, was the most famous of 19th-century French courtesans.

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La rondine

La rondine (The Swallow) is a comic opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and.

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La traviata

La traviata (The Fallen Woman)Meadows, p. 582 is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

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Lais of Corinth

Lais of Corinth (fl. 425 BCE) was a famous hetaira or courtesan of ancient Greece who was probably born in Corinth.

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Lais of Hyccara

Lais of Hyccara (died 340 BC) was a courtesan of Ancient Greece.

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Liane de Pougy

Liane de Pougy (2 July 1869 – 26 December 1950), was a Folies Bergère vedette and dancer renowned as one of Paris's most beautiful and notorious courtesans.

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Lillie Langtry

Emilie Charlotte Langtry (née Le Breton; October 13, 1853 – February 12, 1929), known as Lillie (or Lily) Langtry and nicknamed "The Jersey Lily", was a British-American socialite, actress and producer.

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List of Firefly characters

This page lists characters from the television series Firefly.

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List of Rurouni Kenshin characters

The manga series Rurouni Kenshin features a large cast of fictional characters created by Nobuhiro Watsuki.

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Loanword

A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.

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Lola Montez

Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld (17 February 1821 – 17 January 1861), better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a "Spanish dancer", courtesan, and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of Landsfeld.

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Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Louis XV of France

Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774.

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Louis, Grand Condé

Louis de Bourbon or Louis II, Prince of Condé (8 September 1621 – 11 December 1686) was a French general and the most famous representative of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon.

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Louise de La Vallière

Louise de La Vallière (Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc; 6 August 1644 – 7 June 1710) was a mistress of Louis XIV of France from 1661 to 1667.

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Louise Julie de Mailly

Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, comtesse de Mailly (1710–1751) was the eldest of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France.

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Lucy Walter

Lucy Walter or Lucy Barlow (c. 1630 – 1658) was a Welsh mistress of King Charles II of England and mother of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.

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Madame de Pompadour

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to 1751, and remained influential as court favourite until her death.

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Madame du Barry

Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (19 August 1743 – 8 December 1793) was the last Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France and one of the victims of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

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Margaret Drummond (mistress)

Margaret Drummond (c. 1475 – 1501) was a daughter of John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond, and a mistress of King James IV of Scotland.

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Marie Anne de Mailly

Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France.

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Marie Duplessis

Marie Duplessis (15 January 1824 – 3 February 1847) was a French courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent and wealthy men.

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Marie Touchet

Marie Touchet (1549 – 28 March 1638), Dame de Belleville, was the only mistress of Charles IX of France.

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Marie-Louise O'Murphy

Marie-Louise O'Murphy (also variously called Mademoiselle de Morphy, La Belle Morphise, Louise Morfi or Marie-Louise Morphy de Boisfailly; 21 October 1737 – 11 December 1814) was one of the lesser mistresses (petites maîtresses) of King Louis XV of France, and a model for the famous painting of François Boucher.

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Marion Delorme

Marion Delorme (3 October 1613 – 2 July 1650) was a French courtesan known for her relationships with the important men of her time.

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Mary Boleyn

Mary Boleyn, also known as Lady Mary (c. 1499/1500 – 19 July 1543), was the sister of English queen Anne Boleyn, whose family enjoyed considerable influence during the reign of King Henry VIII.

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Mass Effect

Mass Effect is a science fiction action role-playing third-person shooter video game series developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows, with the third installment also released on the Wii U. The fourth game was released on Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March 2017.

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Mata Hari

Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War IHowe, Russel Warren (1986).

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Mathilde Kschessinska

Mathilda-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinskaya (Matylda Maria Krzesińska, Матильда Феликсовна Кшесинская; 6 December 1971; also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya after her marriage) was a Russian ballerina from a family of Polish origin.

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Mira Nair

Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City.

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Mistress (lover)

A mistress is a relatively long-term female lover and companion who is not married to her partner, especially when her partner is married to someone else.

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Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which a group, generally a family representing a dynasty (aristocracy), embodies the country's national identity and its head, the monarch, exercises the role of sovereignty.

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Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! (from) is a 2001 Australian-American jukebox musical romantic comedy film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann.

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Nagarvadhu

Nagarvadhu or Nagar Vadhu (Devanagari: नगरवधू) ("bride of the city") was a tradition followed in some parts of ancient India.

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Nana (novel)

Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola.

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Nell Gwyn

Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687; also spelled Gwynn, Gwynne) was a long-time mistress of King Charles II of England and Scotland.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman, (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress and producer.

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Ninon de l'Enclos

Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos (10 November 1620 – 17 October 1705) was a French author, courtesan, and patron of the arts.

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Oiran

were courtesans in Japan.

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Othello

Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.

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Pakeezah

Pakeezah (Pākīzā, meaning Pure) is a 1972 Indian cult classic film, written and directed by Kamal Amrohi, who was known for his perfectionism.

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Pamela Harriman

Pamela Beryl Harriman (née Digby; 20 March 1920 – 5 February 1997), also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English-born American political activist for the Democratic Party, diplomat, and socialite.

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Paolo Veronese

Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter, based in Venice, known for large-format history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573).

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Patsy Cornwallis-West

Mary Adelaide Virginia Thomasina Eupatoria "Patsy" Cornwallis-West (née FitzPatrick; 1856 - 21 July 1920) was an Irish born Aristocrat and later a prominent mistress of the future King Edward VII.

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Pericles

Pericles (Περικλῆς Periklēs, in Classical Attic; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age — specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.

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Phryne

Phryne (Φρύνη) (born c. 371 BC) was an ancient Greek courtesan (hetaira), from the fourth century BC.

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Pietro Aretino

Pietro Aretino (19 or 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics and developed modern literary pornography.

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Pilegesh

Pilegesh (פִּילֶגֶשׁ) is a Hebrew term for a concubine with similar social and legal standing to a recognized wife, often for the purpose of producing offspring.

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Promiscuity

Promiscuity is the practice of having casual sex frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Qiyan

Qiyān (قِيان, IPA /qi'jaːn/; singular qayna, قَينة, IPA /'qaina/) were a social class of non-free women, trained as entertainers, which existed in the pre-modern Islamicate world.

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Rekha

Bhanurekha Ganesan (born 10 October 1954), better known by her stage name Rekha, is an Indian film actress.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Royal mistress

A royal mistress is the historical position of a mistress to a monarch or an heir apparent.

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Rurouni Kenshin

,Note: The Japanese title literally means "Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman, a collection of Romantic Folk Tales." "Rurouni" is a neologism created from the verb "ru," meaning "to wander," and "ronin," meaning "masterless samurai." A rough translation of the title would be "Kenshin the Wandering Swordsman".

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Sacred prostitution

Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, cult prostitution, and religious prostitution are general terms for a sexual rite consisting of sexual intercourse or other sexual activity performed in the context of religious worship, perhaps as a form of fertility rite or divine marriage (hieros gamos).

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Saint

A saint (also historically known as a hallow) is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God.

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Sarah Dunant

Sarah Dunant (born 8 August 1950) is a British novelist, journalist, broadcaster and critic.

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Shamakhi dancers

The Shamakhi dancers (Azerbaijani: Şamaxı rəqqasələri) were the principal dancers of the entertainment groups that existed in Shamakhi (Azerbaijan) up to the late 19th century.

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Shāriyah

Shāriyah (c. 815 in al-Basra – c. 870 C.E.) was an ‘Abbasid qayna (enslaved singing-girl), who enjoyed a prominent place in the court of Al-Wathiq (r. 842-47).

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Siddhartha (novel)

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.

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Sophia Baddeley

Sophia Baddeley (1745 – July 1786) was an English actress, singer and courtesan.

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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes

Honoré de Balzac's Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, translated either as The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans or as A Harlot High and Low, was published in four parts from 1838-1847.

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Støvlet-Cathrine

Anne Cathrine Benthagen known in history by her nickname Støvlet-Cathrine (b. Copenhagen, 1745 – d. Plön, Holstein, 1805) was a Danish prostitute, one of the best known courtesans in Copenhagen in the 1760s and the official royal mistress of King Christian VII of Denmark.

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Su Xiaoxiao

Su Xiaoxiao (Chinese: 蘇小小, died c. 501), also known as Su Xiaojun and sometimes by the appellation "Little Su", was a famous Chinese courtesan and poet from Qiantang City (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province) in the Southern Qi Dynasty (479–502).

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Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin (born January 26, 1943) is a radical feminist philosopher, essayist and playwright particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works.

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Sycophant

Sycophant was a term used in the legal system of Classic Athens but in modern English it refers to someone practicing sycophancy i.e. obedient flattery.

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Thaïs

Thaïs (Θαΐς) was a famous Greek hetaera who accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns.

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The Book of the Courtier

The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano) is a courtesy book.

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The Rover (play)

The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers is a play in two parts that is written by the English author Aphra Behn.

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The Vampire Armand

The Vampire Armand (1998) is a horror novel by American writer Anne Rice, the sixth in her The Vampire Chronicles series.

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The White Devil

The White Devil is a revenge tragedy by English playwright John Webster (c.1580–c.1634).

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Theodora (6th century)

Theodora (Greek: Θεοδώρα; c. 500 – 28 June 548) was empress of the Eastern Roman Empire by marriage to Emperor Justinian I.

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Three Kingdoms

The Three Kingdoms (220–280) was the tripartite division of China between the states of Wei (魏), Shu (蜀), and Wu (吳).

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Tullia d'Aragona

Tullia d'Aragona (c. 1510 – 1556) was a 16th-century Italian poet, author and philosopher.

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Ulla Winblad

Ulla Winblad was a semi-fictional character in many of Carl Michael Bellman's works.

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Umrao Jaan

Umrao Jaan may refer to.

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Umrao Jaan Ada

Umrao Jaan Ada (اُمراؤ جان ادا) is an Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa (1857–1931), first published in 1899.

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Vaishali (ancient city)

Vaishali or Vesali was a city in present-day Bihar, India, and is now an archaeological site.

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Veronica Franco

Veronica Franco (1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice.

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Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (22 March 1837 – 28 November 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was born to an aristocratic family from La Spezia.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Yiji

A yiji was a high-class courtesan in ancient China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtesan

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