poshtitute
Glossary term
/ˈpɒʃ.tɪ.tjuːt/
Prostitute serving the affluent classes. Lady Snatch qualifies only approximately, marriage having complicated the taxonomy.
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Who uses the word
- Lady Kelly Snatch ← works as (1 passage)
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To describe the redoubtable matron Lady Snatch as a poshtitute was in point of fact slightly wide of the mark. For, much as there can be no doubt as to the genuine, which is to say legal, nature of her union to the noble whose name she bore, and much as she most certainly did earn her bread and gear by dint of relaxing the stiff muscles of tired businessmen;…