white slaver

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noun

a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.

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Origin of white slaver

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby white slaver

White Settlement, white settler, white shark, white-shoe, white slave, white slaver, white slavery, white-slaving, whitesmith, white snakeroot, white space

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How to use white slaver in a sentence

That and more too might be said of the districts where the white slaver grows rich from his traffic in girls.
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls|Various
Upon refusing they were dragged through the streets and given to a white slaver.
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls|Various
Another favorite device of the white slaver for landing victims is the runaway marriage trick.
Herself|E. B. Lowry
Tons of literature have been written, warning the girls of the country against the perfidious White Slaver.
The Vice Bondage of a Great City or the Wickedest City in the World|Robert O. Harland

There, as in the dance halls, the "White Slaver" plies his trade, and the destroyer of womanliness lays his nets.
What eight million women want|Rheta Childe Dorr

British Dictionary definitions for white slaver

white-slaver

noun

a person who procures or forces women to become prostitutes

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