What is "strumpets"

Usage examples of "strumpets".

The strumpets numbered almost as many as the beggars, in transparent silks that emphasized rather than concealed swelling breasts and rounded buttocks, wearing peridot masquerading as emeralds and carbuncle passing for ruby.

Screams went up from the strumpets, and wrathful cries from the beggars.

A pair of strumpets, one with multi-hued beads braided in her hair, the other wearing a tall wig in a bright shade of red, circulated among the patrons quietly hawking the wares they displayed in diaphanous silk.

Their smooth fingers played as free with the strumpets as did the sailors' callused hands.

Why, I've heard strumpets resting their feet wager on whether the next bed Davinia graces will be that of Yildiz.

Last night, asking about for Emilio, I discovered that the strumpets of this city fancy Zamoran astrology.

No few of the strumpets suggested that he could find what he was looking for with them, and some men cackled that they might keep the girl themselves, did they find her, but their laughter faded to nervous sweating under his icy blue gaze.

Jugglers with balls and rings, clubs and flashing knives worked their art for the strumpets that strolled the street, half naked in brief silks, burnished brass bangles and stilted sandals, flaunting their wares for whoever had a coin.

A hundred strumpets, rouged, perfumed and bangled, lightly draped with brightly colored silks, postured where two thousand would strut at dark.