See courtesan in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for payment:
bawd, call girl, camp follower, harlot, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, tart2, whore. (Slang) hooker, moll. Idioms: lady of easy virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the night. See sex
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