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Word: hetaerae (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...twirls once, as a girl assistant in nondescript black announces in a flat, noncommittal voice: "Colombine, quarante-et-un, fawr-ty-wan." The model hovers, slips off the jacket and hands it to the assistant, who accepts it in silence, impersonal and invisible as an attendant on some ancient hetaera. The stolid faces stare C'l listen for a certain quality of silence." says Dior). The model twirls again and is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dictator by Demand | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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