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  • noun A female slave
  • noun A female required to perform sexual acts, a sex slave.

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Examples

  • Perhaps Ho, the Master of Air he had no love for Simon Beltaire, not after Simon had disfigured him in a quarrel over a Chinese slave-girl.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • Her lamps were Tiffany and her chandelier 1910 Murano glass, a collection of magnificent paintings adorned the walls, and two bronze slave-girl lights six feet tall provided the first illumination once the front door was opened.

    Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010

  • "But I'm also Frank Grouard-or, properly speaking, Frank Flash-man, son of Cleonie the slave-girl and the Englishman who sold her at Santa Fe."

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • The result is that a substantial number of children come swaggering into the classroom having no reason to be polite or respectful (and thus, 'the slave-girl has given birth to her mistress'), and no incentive to make any serious effort.

    Robert Rose: Education, Wonder, and Eros 2009

  • Said he, "They are that the slave-girl will give birth to her mistress, that you will see the barefooted ones, the naked, the destitute, the herdsmen of the sheep (competing with each other) in raising lofty buildings."

    The Hadith of Jibril JDsg 2007

  • When I have followed it, if Allah grant me recovery, I will give thee a slave-girl, who shall serve thee in they lifetime a service, wherewith Allah shall cut short thy term; and when thou diest and the Lord hurrieth thy soul to hell-fire, she shall blacken thy face with her skite, of her mourning for thee, and shall keen and beat her face, saying

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And as the broker passed by the Governor with the slave, Hahzalam Bazazah cast at her one glance of the eyes which entailed for himself one thousand sighs; and he fell in love with her and passion got hold of him and he said, “O my father, buy me yonder slave-girl.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • She found him drunk with wine and said to him, “O my son, no one caused thy release from jail but the wife of the Governor, and she would have thee find some means to slay Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat and get his slave-girl Jessamine for her son Habzalam Bazazah.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • A love-struck general called Radames has fallen hopelessly in love with an Ethiopian slave-girl called Aida.

    Erica Jong: Aida and Iraq 2008

  • So the slave-girl came up to me and said, ‘O Shaykh, hast thou no shame, or do impudent airs suit hoary hairs?’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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