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STRUMPET. A harlot, or courtesan: this word was formerly used as an addition. Jacob's Law Dict. h.t.

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Indeed, while the sixteen chapters of A Capital in Conflict attempt to contribute to a deeper understanding of Dublin in this turbulent period, if one wished to truly get a sense of its everyday lived experience, one could hardly improve upon the wonderful novel, Strumpet City, which has been reissued with a new dust-jacket and preface.

Dublin 1913

of a strumpet for the benefit of a vulgar audience and thus her identity

Cleopatra's theatrical discourse in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

There are exclusive brands like Carine Gilson, Nuits de Satin and Strumpet & Pink.

The goods: a personal shopper can help dig up the best of everything

In an entry on the lodestone in his chapbook Cornucopiae, or Divers Secrets {I 596), the London apothecary Thomas Johnson writes that, just as the lodestone imparts its magnetic force to iron that is rubbed on it, "in like manner the smock or other apparel of a strumpet being worn of others, giveth a certain impudencie and shameless boldness to those parties.

Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600

The struggle for trade union recognition inspired the writing of the outstanding novel Strumpet City.

Lockout: Dublin, 1913

Is it because you are a bit of a romantic and like to think of your girlfriend as a nice old-fashioned girl and not a strumpet.

Dear Rachael: GORGEOUS GIRL IS HOOKED ON PORN

Strumpet has Christopher Eccle-ston as Strayman, a poet who's landlord to a pack of stray dogs and hooks up with Strumpet (Jenna G), a shy homeless girl with a gift for music.

Hoovers and shakers

If our judges do not trust Justinian, they might invoke Shakespeare: in his Henry VI Part I, he shows Joan of Arc most unhistorically as a witch and a strumpet who "pleads her belly" when she has been condemned to be burned at the stake:

The Court's tangled web

c) Some jobless strumpet who spends her weekend getting blitzed on alcopops, waking up in strange men's houses and leaving her illegitimate pups home alone.

GARY KEOWN The voice of tomorrow; It's not pills these `ladies' need... it's chastity belts

14), the bark returns "Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind"; and like the bark, Jessica is beggared by her riot with Lorenzo.

Errata List for "Allegorical Commentary in The Merchant of Venice," Shakespeare Studies, 24 (1996)

Strumpet City (1969), an acclaimed historical novel, deals with the trade union movement in Dublin prior to World War I.

Plunkett, James

But that reliable strumpet commerce is invariably strutting her stuff at the next crossroads.