"lady of pleasure" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1683, anonymous author, The London Jilt",
          "text": "I instructed her with all those things which a Lady of Pleasure ought to know, for the heaping up a Sum of Money wherewith she may maintain her self during her Old Age.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex",
          "text": "By 1765, a visitor to London noted that prints of celebrated ladies of pleasure were both extraordinarily cheap (‘a few guineas will buy a whole seraglio’) and were issued in huge editions, of three or four thousand at a time.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A female prostitute or courtesan."
      ],
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          "prostitute",
          "prostitute"
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          "courtesan",
          "courtesan"
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  "word": "lady of pleasure"
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        {
          "ref": "1683, anonymous author, The London Jilt",
          "text": "I instructed her with all those things which a Lady of Pleasure ought to know, for the heaping up a Sum of Money wherewith she may maintain her self during her Old Age.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex",
          "text": "By 1765, a visitor to London noted that prints of celebrated ladies of pleasure were both extraordinarily cheap (‘a few guineas will buy a whole seraglio’) and were issued in huge editions, of three or four thousand at a time.",
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      ],
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        "A female prostitute or courtesan."
      ],
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          "courtesan",
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