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hetaera

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7 lettersPronunciation /hɪˈtɪəɹə/Sorted aaeehrtStarts with HEnds with A0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them.

Word origin

From Ancient Greek ἑταίρᾱ (hetaírā), feminine of ἑταῖρος (hetaîros, “companion”).

Used in a sentence

  • But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the rest...
  • Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.
  • Christ appeared, only to reveal himself as the naked god Pan. Ballet of hetaerae and houris, choreography by Italo Castaldi.

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