hetairai
- plural of hetaira.
Example Sentences
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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 Kenealy, Arabella
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 Finck, Henry Theophilus
For the hetairai did not shun the light of day, and were not restrained by the law.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
Very different from the social position of chaste women was that of the hetairai.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
For these Grecian hetairai comprised, in the main, the flower of their generation.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
