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Taylor was small 5ft 2in, dark-haired, her eyes a striking violet, her eyebrows unfashionably thick, her eyelashes as seductively employed as a courtesan's fan, and she was beautiful in different ways at various stages of her 70-year career, although her weight fluctuated alarmingly later in life.
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Medynsky in her drawing-room of beauty, or in the foulest depths of the first chance courtesan's heart.
Fomá Gordyéeff 2010
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Everywhere a huge, enveloping softness; soft as face powder, soft as petticoats, soft as the snuff in a courtesan's box.
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He parted the billowing curtains and let himself into the courtesan's bedchamber.
THE PREVIOUS ADVENTURES OF POPEYE THE SAILOR Jim Ruland 2009
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In France, where mopeds are as common as berets and suitcases of courage, a reader informs me that the "Hipster High-Lock" has become more baroque than a 17th century courtesan's underpants:
High Times: Suspending Bikes and Disbelief BikeSnobNYC 2009
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He parted the billowing curtains and let himself into the courtesan's bedchamber.
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Despite the many attempts to limit a courtesan's foray into Venetian public life, the occasional patriotic compositions Veronica Franco wrote and the poetic anthologies she composed and edited from 1570 to 1580 affirm her entrance into the intellectual life of the Venetian elite.
Lapham's Quarterly: Call-Girls and Courtesans: Getting An Education in 2009 and 1570 2009
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The slender, semiautobiographical volume "Chéri," which tells of an aging courtesan's love affair with a 19-year-old boy, is Colette's best-known novel.
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Phryné devant le tribunal of 1861, in which the courtesan's gesturing to cover her face, while ostensibly out of modesty, all the more surely calls attention to her resplendent nudity, and to her identity as an incomparable beauty: she was supposedly the model for
Notes on 'Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef' 2007
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The idea that courtesan's were the only women at the time with access to Venice's libraries was very engaging to me...
What should I read next? Kat Howard 2009
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