Definition of "loose woman" [loose woman]

• A sexually promiscuous woman; a prostitute. (noun)

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• "'The loose woman and the nun ... have this in common, that they are both the outcome of the refusal among womankind to accept married relations on the basis of the subjection imposed by the fatherage' (L. Eckenstein, op. cit.,"