procuress

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A middlewoman: a woman who performs as a go-between, an intermediary.
  2. A female procurer.
    — The Spaniard, who will seduce any girl he can, is pitiless under like circumstances to his own womenkind; so there is much weeping, the girl is turned out of doors and falls readily into the hands of the procuress. In the brothels of Seville or of Madrid she finds at least a roof and bread to eat.

词形变化

procuresses plural

词源

From Old French procureresse (compare French procureuse), corresponding to procure + -ess.
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