How do you use Procuress in a sentence? See 2 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like pimp or procurer, plus the exact meaning.
Procuress meaning
- A middlewoman: a woman who performs as a go-between, an intermediary.
- A female procurer.
Using Procuress
- The main meaning on this page is: A middlewoman: a woman who performs as a go-between, an intermediary. | A female procurer.
- Useful related words include: pimp, procurer, panderer, pander.
- In the example corpus, procuress often appears in combinations such as: the procuress.
Context around Procuress
- Average sentence length in these examples: 39.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Procuress
- In this selection, "procuress" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 39.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, owned stand out and add context to how "procuress" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include canvas the procuress or a and s the procuress owned by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "procuress" sits close to words such as aabb, aabria and aacha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with procuress
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Vermeer's mother-in-law Maria Thins owned Dirck van Baburen 's 1622 oil-on-canvas The Procuress (or a copy of it), which appears in the background of two of Vermeer's paintings. (34 words)
In July 2011, the BBC TV programme Fake or Fortune investigated a copy of Dirck van Baburen 's The Procuress owned by the Courtauld Institute. citation Opinion had been divided as to whether it was a 17th-century studio work or a van Meegeren fake. (45 words)
In July 2011, the BBC TV programme Fake or Fortune investigated a copy of Dirck van Baburen 's The Procuress owned by the Courtauld Institute. citation Opinion had been divided as to whether it was a 17th-century studio work or a van Meegeren fake. (45 words)
Vermeer's mother-in-law Maria Thins owned Dirck van Baburen 's 1622 oil-on-canvas The Procuress (or a copy of it), which appears in the background of two of Vermeer's paintings. (34 words)
Example sentences (2)
In July 2011, the BBC TV programme Fake or Fortune investigated a copy of Dirck van Baburen 's The Procuress owned by the Courtauld Institute. citation Opinion had been divided as to whether it was a 17th-century studio work or a van Meegeren fake.
Vermeer's mother-in-law Maria Thins owned Dirck van Baburen 's 1622 oil-on-canvas The Procuress (or a copy of it), which appears in the background of two of Vermeer's paintings.
Common combinations with procuress
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: