"putour" meaning in Middle English

See putour in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: putours [plural]
Etymology: See put (“a prostitute”). Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} putour, {{enm-noun}} putour (plural putours)
  1. A keeper of a brothel; a procurer.
    Sense id: en-putour-enm-noun-cTFCvarG Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    },
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        {
          "english": "What say we also of pimps that live by the horrible sin of prostitution, and constrain women to yield them a certain rent of their bodily prostitution, yea, sometimes of his own wife or his child, as do these bawds?",
          "roman": "What seye we eek of putours that liven by the horrible sinne of putrie, and constreyne wommen to yelden to hem a certeyn rente of hir bodily puterie, ye, somtyme of his owene wyf or his child; as doon this baudes?",
          "text": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parson's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, section 76, line 886",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A keeper of a brothel; a procurer."
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "procurer",
          "procurer"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "putour"
}
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  "etymology_text": "See put (“a prostitute”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "putours",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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          "roman": "What seye we eek of putours that liven by the horrible sinne of putrie, and constreyne wommen to yelden to hem a certeyn rente of hir bodily puterie, ye, somtyme of his owene wyf or his child; as doon this baudes?",
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