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Word: whoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 250 years ago, Cockney Nell Gwyn, self-styled "Protestant whore" of King Charles II, unable to write her own name, initialed a 12-shilling receipt "for a pair of rich embroidered garters." Sold at famous Sotheby's in London in 1939, the voucher, without the garters, brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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