Courtesan in a sentence

In one category was a type of courtesan known (in Italy) as the cortigiana onesta, or the honest courtesan, who was cast as an intellectual.

Life as a courtesan At the height of her success and after separating from her husband in 1770, she discovered that she could sustain herself financially by finding wealthy benefactors, establishing herself as a courtesan to them.

This was generally a safe affair, as both the benefactor's spouse and the courtesan's spouse usually were fully aware of the arrangement, and the courtesan was not solely dependent on the benefactor.

Another title is Van Erp’s English-language period drama “A Beautiful Imperfection,” about 18th-century Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova’s love affair, when he was 17, with a Dutch courtesan in Amsterdam told from a female perspective.

But unlike her character, an actress and courtesan who is “very closed off,” Reed says she is a romantic.

Claire Benedict as the compassionate Abbess, and Phoebe Naughton as the wronged Courtesan, are also terrific.

This summer a new restaurant opened in my small town and at the soft opening I dined on crispy chicken that lay like a courtesan on a bed of aromatic lavender rice.

In Damiano Michieletto’s new production at the they chart a trajectory from puppy love through a more mature, empathic relationship to the fateful liaison with a courtesan in a Venetian palace.

The series then shows a flashback of a time when her mother was a courtesan and caught the disease.

Unlike Dumas’s novel (which is nowadays considered to be something of a moral treatise promoting “family values”), Verdi’s opera strikes a note of sympathy with its titular protagonist, the courtesan Violetta Valéry.

In the film, Ishaan plays Maan Kapoor, the rebellious son of politician Mahesh Kapoor (played by Ram Kapoor), who develops an attraction to the beautiful courtesan Saaeda Bai.

Ishaan plays Maan Kapoor, the rebellious son of politician Mahesh Kapoor (played by Ram Kapoor), who develops an attraction to the beautiful courtesan Saaeda Bai (essayed by Tabu).

After impressing Young Jun (Jason Tobin), son of tong leader Father Jun (Perry Yung), Ah Sahm is branded and taken to a brothel, where he befriends Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng), a courtesan with connections.

In the second tale, a courtesan Hoffmann loves, named Giuletta, is given the task of stealing his reflection from a mirror.

Four years later Doris, a notorious courtesan, apparently did sleep with Churchill’s son Randolph.

In Jules Massenet’s ultra-Romantic opera, “Thais,” that irresistible force is the title character, a woman who worships Venus, sees sex as sacred and oversees orgies while making a very lucrative living as a courtesan.

One iconic opera Mitchell feels might benefit from such an approach is La Traviata, Verdi’s tragedy about a courtesan who sacrifices herself for love.

Opera Australia's iconic production of opens in the State Theatre on Tuesday, April 17, with young American soprano Corinne Winters making her Australian debut in her signature role as the doomed courtesan Violetta.

According to Catherine Puglisi 'Lena' may have been the same as the courtesan Maddalena di Paolo Antognetti, who named Caravaggio as an intimate friend by her own testimony in 1604.

Although the latter was still considered better than an average courtesan, the former was the sort most often romanticized and treated more-or-less equal to women of the nobility.