anonyma

English edit

anonyma (plural anonymas)

(obsolete) A courtesan; a female prostitute.
- 1869, Fanny Aikin Kortright, Pro aris et focis. [On women's work.], page 30:
  They have seen women of rank, and parvenues, chaste maidens and anonymas, in a confused and gaudy glare of barbarous splendour.
- 1880, Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A Selection from His Works, page 37:
  A 'fine lady,' presumably an Anonyma of the period, finds herself in the fastness of a spunging house; […]

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