Dictionary Entry

harlot

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈhɑːlət/Used In Literature ↓

A female prostitute.

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Common Phrases

. harlotharlot greatharlot common

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Poetry examples for “harlot”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

To please thyself, thyself put out of mind.
No charmËd herbs of any harlot scathed thee,
No faithless witch in Thessal waters bathed thee. 40

They went. The darkness swallowed thee again.
Thou art the harlot, now thy time is done,
Of all the mighty nations of the sun.

Such pleasure die
As the poor harlot's, in whose body stirs
The innocent life that is and is not hers:

She heard a beggar against the wall
Shaking his cup, a harlot's squall
Struck through the riot like a sword,

This woman to his home--"the shameless trull,"
Said Mrs. Wenner, "harlot, impudent jade,
To think my husband is dead, would she were dead--

After all's said and after all's done,
What should I be but a harlot and a nun?

Again he rouses from his moping fits,
But seeks not now the harlot and the bowl.[bm]
Onward he flies, nor fixed as yet the goal

Under the Balcony 223
The Harlot’s House 225
Le Jardin des Tuileries 227

FROM ‘THE GARDEN OF EROS’ 128
THE HARLOT’S HOUSE 140
FROM ‘THE BURDEN OF ITYS’ 144

The rattle of the kingfisher;
Saw bonfires of the harlot flies
In the lowland, when day dies;