Lorette (prostitution)
Type of 19th century prostitute / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Lorette is a type of 19th-century French prostitute. They stood between the kept women (courtesans) and the grisettes.[1][2] A grisette had other employment and worked part-time as a prostitute whereas a Lorette supported herself exclusively from prostitution. The lorette shared her favours among several lovers; the Lorette's "Arthurs", as they called them, were not financially able or too fickle to have exclusivity.[3][4]
The lorettes evolved into coquettes under the Second French Empire and grues by the First World War.[5]