hetaira
noun
hetairai
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pluralof hetaira.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Very different from the social position of chaste women was that of the hetairai.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
In actual life a certain chivalrous attitude toward women existed at most toward hetairai, in which case, as a matter of course, it was adulterated with a very unpleasant ingredient of frivolous sentimentality….
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
Propertius not only writes with the hetairai in his mind, but, like his Alexandrian models, he appears as one who is forever writing love-poems without ever being really in love.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
The only women who were free were the hetairai, those famous ladies who shed a lurid brilliance over the corruption and decline of this great State—a decline wherewith they had, most certainly, much to do.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
For these Grecian hetairai comprised, in the main, the flower of their generation.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
