white slave

noun

a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
a white person held as a slave.

Origin of white slave

First recorded in 1825–35

OTHER WORDS FROM white slave

white-slave, adjective

Words nearby white slave

white sea, white sea bass, white settlement, white settler, white shark, white slave, white slaver, white slavery, white snakeroot, white sound, white space

Example sentences from the Web for white slave

  • Personally, I think there's a lot of bunk about this white-slave talk.

    Abroad at Home |Julian Street

  • Tell me why Blizzard has gone out of the white-slave business.

    The Penalty |Gouverneur Morris

  • Rape, pandering, and the white-slave traffic are almost unknown among them.

    The Old World in the New |Edward Alsworth Ross

  • It means that you have been seeing the white-slave traffic in action.

    The Machine |Upton Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for white slave

white slave

noun

a girl or woman forced or sold into prostitution

Derived forms of white slave

white slavery, noun