procuress

The old woman can be viewed as either the girl's procuress or her attentive mother.

Maybe even that the old dame was a procuress, showing me women for the usual reasons.

She is a professional procuress, involved in every shady calling, a seller of "anything and everything."

Timur smiled to himself: the old procuress, she certainly knows how to flatter her little kitten!

Escorted by a procuress, they arrive at the house and are lodged in a room adjacent to the pleasure- salon.

After Vermeer's The Procuress it is the largest work by the master.

The paper called her a "grey-haired hag" and "the most wicked procuress in the city."

More formally, one who is said to practice procuring is a procurer, or procuress.

The procuress looked up at Lord Marcus hopefully.

On the dust jacket is a detail from "The Procuress" by Vermeer.

Hay felt like a procuress.

Maria Thins owned the painting and had told me it was called The Procuress.

He brings his nine-year-old daughter to the brothel, and while she is held by a procuress, depucelates her.

As I returned I glanced at The Procuress on the wall.

The procuress of a brothel often used the promise of beauty to entice girls to enter the profession.

The Procuress is a 1656 oil-on-canvas painting by Jan Vermeer.

The old procuress obeyed.

"He'll pay," they reassured the procuress.

It depicts a man offering a coin for the services of a lute-playing prostitute while an old woman, the lady's procuress, inspects his money.

The Procuress may refer to:

Mandy had vast experience in dealing with them, and like any sensible procuress, would have several bully boys in her employ to enforce the peace.

Mari Analoch, hard, old, with eyes like those of a bird of prey, a procuress seeking to open a new establishment.

The dress would be provocative, the facial expressions suggestive, and sometimes there would be a third figure of an older woman acting as a procuress.

The authenticity of the painting The Procuress owned by the Courtauld Institute.

Rebecca Jarrett met an old associate, a procuress called Nancy Broughton.