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Hetaera

//hɪˈtɪəɹə// noun

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

    "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..."

  2. 2
    A mistress.

    "Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera."

Etymology

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

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