procuress

Noun

Meaning

A female procurer, or pander.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mack ponce madam prostitute mackerel pimp matchmaker pander procurer go-between bawd pandar hoon panderer hacking

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Hypernyms

ponce pimp pander procurer pandar fancy man

Anagrams

percussor

Examples

In July 2011, the BBC TV programme Fake or Fortune investigated a copy of Dirck van Baburen 's The Procuress owned by the Courtauld Institute. citation Opinion had been divided as to whether it was a 17th-century studio work or a van Meegeren fake. Source: Internet

Vermeer's mother-in-law Maria Thins owned Dirck van Baburen 's 1622 oil-on-canvas The Procuress (or a copy of it), which appears in the background of two of Vermeer's paintings. Source: Internet

Works seeAlso Only three Vermeer paintings are dated: The Procuress (1656; Gemäldegalerie, Dresden); The Astronomer (1668; Musée du Louvre, Paris); and The Geographer (1669; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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