woman of the night
Sells intimate services
A woman of the night is a prostitute.
The phrase is a somewhat literary or old-fashioned euphemism, evoking streetwalkers working after dark: The detective questioned several women of the night about the murder victim.
- lady of the eveningEuphemism for prostitute
- oldest professionSex work, historically
- streetwalkerOne who solicits outdoors
- street cornerWhere two roads intersect
- prostituteOne who sells sex
courtesan · escort · autonomy · vulnerability · call girl · red light district · taboo · nocturne · stigma · madam · exploitation · empowerment · femme fatale · survival · dominatrix · seduction · allure · velvet glove
moral/social standing
woman of the nightlady
Courteous term for woman
matron · gentlewoman · Madonna · pillar of the community · saint
profession/occupation type
woman of the nightnun
Hebrew alphabet's fourteenth
nurse · schoolteacher · wife · homemaker · mother
woman, women, womanhood, womanly, womankind, night, nights, nightly, nighttime