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Terms vs Hetaerae - What's the difference?

terms | hetaerae |

As nouns the difference between terms and hetaerae

is that terms is while hetaerae is (hetaera).

terms

English

Noun

(head)

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    hetaerae

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (hetaera)

    • hetaera

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (historical) A mistress, especially a highly cultivated courtesan in ancient Greece.
  • * 1957 , Lawrence Durrell, Justine :
    • But of course our friend is only a shallow twentieth-century reproduction of the great hetairae of the past, the type to which she belongs without knowing it, Lais, Charis and the rest...
  • * 1971 , Gottfried Benn & E. B. Ashton, Primal vision: selected writings?
    • Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera .
  • * 1980 , Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
    • Christ appeared, only to reveal himself as the naked god Pan. Ballet of hetaerae and houris, choreography by Italo Castaldi.

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