procuresses

SOCRATES: Certainly not; but midwives are respectable women who have a character to lose, and they avoid this department of their profession, because they are afraid of being called procuresses, which is a name given to those who join together man and woman in an unlawful and unscientific way; and yet the true midwife is also the true and only matchmaker.

Theaetetus 2007

Buffoons and dwarfs trailing along after the gentlemen of noose and dagger, in conference with smiling procuresses.

Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals 2006

It wasn't so much the nudity or the sex scenes, it was the look in the predators eyes as they survey the teenage boys and girls that have been rounded up by three middle-aged procuresses and taken to a bucolic villa in the countryside.

Movie Review Salo Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008

It wasn't so much the nudity or the sex scenes, it was the look in the predators eyes as they survey the teenage boys and girls that have been rounded up by three middle-aged procuresses and taken to a bucolic villa in the countryside.

Archive 2008-10-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008

Buffoons and dwarfs trailing along after the gentlemen of noose and dagger, in conference with smiling procuresses.

Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals 2006

But respectable midwives avoid this department of practice — they do not want to be called procuresses.

Theaetetus 2007

She was playing the part of a stepdaughter sold in a back alley of Paris to one of the procuresses.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

And so men detest procuresses, for these facilitate the flight, enhance the temptation, but if on the other hand they are in love with a cloistered woman, they willingly have recourse to a procuress to make her emerge from her prison and bring her to them.

The Captive 2003

One day, he was trying — without hurting Odette — to discover from her whether she had ever had any dealings with procuresses.

Swann's Way 2003

Offered me by one of those procuresses (whose good offices, all the same, the reader has seen that I by no means scorned), withdrawn from the element which gave them so many fine shades and such vagueness, these girls would have enchanted me less.

Within a Budding Grove 2003