| 单词 | mother abbess |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother abbess 2. colloquial. A woman in charge of a brothel; a madam. Cf. nun n.1 2. More fully lady abbess, mother abbess. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > procuress butcheressa1475 stew1552 bawdress1569 brokeress1582 pander1585 abbess1594 aunt1604 panderess1604 hackney womanc1616 bronstrops1617 procuress1638 provincialc1640 fruit-woman1673 flesh-broker1699 broker-woman1723 commode1725 coupleress1864 hack1864 procureuse1930 1594 Gesta Grayorum (1914) 12 Lucy Negro, Abbess de Clerkenwell, holdeth the Nunnery of Clerkenwell,..of the Prince of Purpoole by Night-Service in Cauda. 1693 R. Ames Folly of Love (ed. 2) 13 Let's leave her, who to Lewdness sets no bounds, The Lady Abbess of the Fleetstreet Nuns. 1704 Poems on Affairs of State III. 229 For Lady Abbess shall appear, An old flux'd Bawd or Punk, Has whor'd and bug—d threescore year, Talk'd Bawdy, and been drunk. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 63 Who should come in but the venerable mother Abbess herself! handed in by a tall, brawny, young horse-grenadier. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 12 An abbess, well known about town, with a smart little nun in her suite. 1793 ‘P. Pindar’ Poet. Epist. to Pope 33 So an old Abbess for the rattling Rakes, A tempting dish of human nature makes. 1837 W. Kidd London & its Dangers 36 The Infernal wretches, who traffic in the souls and bodies of their helpless victims, are called—Lady Abbesses. 1910 Amer. Jrnl. Dermatol. June 298/2 No youth should have admittance to the wenches without leave of the Abbess. 2004 S. Bednarski in M. Crane et al. Shell Games v. 138 The married town baker was charged with having sex in public with the abbess or madam of the public brothel. < as lemmas |
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