What is "courtezans"

Usage examples of "courtezans".

The girls were not common courtezans, but past mistresses of music, painting, and vice considered as a fine art.

I felt that it was fortunate for me that I had Goudar, who introduced me to all the most famous courtezans in London, above all to the illustrious Kitty Fisher, who was just beginning to be fashionable.

I ordered Le Duc to stay in the ante-chamber, and when he had left the room my Paduan count told me that I had been with his nieces, and had treated them as if they were courtezans, and that he was come to demand satisfaction.

I then went to mass at the Church of the Good Success, where I saw all the handsome courtezans in Madrid.

Venice has always been blessed with courtezans more celebrated by their beauty than their wit.

Rome on the faces of courtezans, and which disgusts those who know how it is produced.