souteneur

"Bully Bottom" in _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, later an overbearing ruffian, especially a coward who abuses his strength by ill-treating the weak; more technically a _souteneur_, a man who lives on the earnings of a prostitute.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

At any rate, a certain Auguste Papon (a mixture of pimp and _souteneur_), whom she had met in Paris, happened to be in Munich at the same time as herself.

The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

Police-officers tell us that it is very difficult to make a prostitute confess anything concerning her _souteneur_.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

Maria R., with her face marked by a terrible scar produced by her _souteneur_, still carefully preserved many years afterward the portrait of the aggressor, and when we asked her to explain her affection she replied: 'But he wounded me because he loved me.'

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

We are here in a confused field where the facts are complicated by a number of considerations, and where circumstances may very widely differ, for the "fancy boy" -- selected from affection by the prostitute herself -- may easily become the _souteneur_, or "cadet" as he is termed in New York, who seduces and trains to prostitution a large number of girls.

Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

The debauchee, the souteneur, the rough often break out into murmurs at a slightly risky scene or expression, though they be very harmless in comparison with their customary conversation.

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind 1896

_souteneur_ constitutes a form of "white slavery."

Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

_souteneur_, although from the respectable point of view he has put himself into a low-down moral position, is, after all, not so very unlike those parasitic wives who, on a higher social level, live lazily on their husbands 'professional earnings, and sometimes give much less than the _souteneur_ in return.

Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

_cagot_ and a _souteneur de soutanes_; and not until the Commune did the

My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887

(Montagu Williams, _Round London_, p. 79.) "The prostitute really loves her _souteneur_, notwithstanding all the persecutions he inflicts on her.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899