hetaira

[ hi-tahyuh r-uh ]

/ hɪˈtaɪər ə /

hetaera.

OTHER WORDS FROM hetaira

he·tai·ric, adjective

The classic Hetaira seems more akin to this Apollochartered libertine of an age bent on being equally classical.

A Decade of Italian Women, v. II (of 2) |T. Adolphus Trollope
Saperdion was a famous Hetaira, the Empousa, a mythological monster.

A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) |Mrs. Sutherland Orr
At Athens there was nothing disgraceful in frequenting the dicterion or keeping an hetaira.

The History of Prostitution |William W. Sanger
In Greece and Rome there was, perhaps you know, a certain class of females called Hetaira, also a class of males called parasites.

A Fantasy of Far Japan |Baron Kencho Suyematsu

This fact renders it more intelligible why a woman of such intellectual distinction as Aspasia should have been a hetaira.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) |Havelock Ellis