The lorette carried within her persona all the connotations of urban display and luxury consumption.
In this celebrated piece, the greatest success of modem times, the Lorettes were held up to public execration, and displayed in all their hideous cynicism.
Lorettes do not pay; they have only credit.
The assembly is not made up purely of idlers and lorettes.
He offered his arm to the lorette, who had a rougish smile on her lips.
Synonyms
mistress, paramour, kept woman
Origin
Mid 19th century: French, named after the Church of Notre Dame de Lorette in Paris, near which many such women lived.