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• n  a woman pimp
• v  get by special effort
• v  arrange for sexual partners for others

• Censors were troubled, too, over the activities of a procuress (Junie Astor) who conducts her activities from the switchboard of the club.
• Then, drugging the virtuous lady, she plots with a procuress to make the lady believe that while unconscious she was violated by the town rake.
• Pellizzari watched the procuress' lover, Rubaciuchi, thief and flophouse inmate, "rise" from the gutter to become a respected police stool pigeon and "hero" of the growing .

• procure
• secure
• pander
• pimp

Quotes

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• John Clifford in guardian.co.uk
  Clifford says he and Bieito are not so much modernising the script as respecting the strangeness, and pre-modernity of De Rojas: "The modern novel would not exist without this play. The language is rich and beautiful. And having the old procuress as...