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Examples
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Massimo from upstairs always says that Florence is a putana, a mercantile city only interested in selling her soul.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Massimo from upstairs always says that Florence is a putana, a mercantile city only interested in selling her soul.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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He says, “If I track this back to you, your putana is dead.”
Savages Don Winslow 2010
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He says, “If I track this back to you, your putana is dead.”
Savages Don Winslow 2010
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Who really gets to go anywhere for Spring Break besides the putana sorority girls and drunken Neanderthals?
qdiosa Diary Entry qdiosa 2006
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"And damn that putana and her family for working with them."
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963
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Your putana friend has been despoiled, I fear, and many of her menservants killed and her women hurt. "
The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963
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"If you want to know what is interesting," said the guard, "what is interesting is the pretty little putana the older Tartar travels with.
The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963
whichbe commented on the word putana
A great demon called Putana dresses as a beautiful young girl and offers her breast milk to baby Krishna. She has smeared deadly posion on her nipples, planning to kill baby Krishna... (There's a video, cartoon re-enactment here.)
June 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word putana
It's interesting that puttana means bitch in Italian, but has a different etymology (the naked putti).
June 13, 2008