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procuress

[ UK /pɹəkjˈʊɹɛs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman pimp

How To Use procuress In A Sentence

  • Mrs. Anne Turner was a dame somewhat of the occupation of Mrs. Suddlechop in the text; that is, half milliner half procuress, and secret agent in all manner of proceedings. The Fortunes of Nigel
  • This same motif of the observing procuress appears in one of the prints in the notorious series of pornographic designs by Giulio illustrating various positions of copulation between men and women.
  • Vida was a known dabbler in the black arts, but also a procuress for Mr. Prince.
  • Foreign Office papers showed they were egging on the Libyans and the Scots like a procuress in some ghastly 16th century painting, trying to drag a poor innocent girl into a young buck's bed. Sir Gus O'Donnell pleases all parties on Lockerbie bomber | Simon Hoggart's sketch
  • As the first steps towards the execution of this honest scheme, he had subjected Aurelia to the superintendency and direction of an old duenna, who had been formerly the procuress of his pleasures; and hired a new set of servants, who were given to understand, at their first admission, that the young lady was disordered in her brain. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
  • Then comes a man of the name of Aubriot, a godson of the procuress Tourtera, and completely under her guidance. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • So I find I am got into the hands of a wicked procuress; and if Pamela
  • Calisto yearns for Melibea and attains her with the aid of a wily procuress, after which the lovers promptly die.
  • As the discerning stare of the procuress suggests, the eagerness of the suitor is by no means matched by his torpid purchase.
  • Bringing the subtext of the antique painting and its copies to the fore, the artist has depicted women coming to a priapic fountain to buy winged, straining phalli from an old procuress.
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