fille de joie
Americannoun
plural
filles de joienoun
Etymology
Origin of fille de joie
Literally, “pleasure girl”
Example Sentences
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This almost terrified Firmian; he said that if he couldn't hit anything himself he would accept only the head of this pig--this polypus in the heart of the Babylonian fille de joie.
From Project Gutenberg
Lulu Belle�Flamboyant black and white melodrama, with Lenore Ulric as a dusky fille de joie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stevenson in the very deeps of that dishonourable traffic had realized as much and likened himself to a fille de joie, and Haggard, of the same school and period, had abandoned blood and thunder at the climax of his success for the honest study of agricultural conditions.
From Project Gutenberg
Even in the least pardonable of light loves he demands this tenderness—demands it from some poor "fille de joie" with the same sort of tearful craving with which he demands it from the Mother of God.
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They never knew him drunk, they never heard him swear, they never found him unjust, even to a poverty-stricken indigène, or brutal, even to a fille de joie.
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