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Middle English
Etymology
See put (“a prostitute”).
Noun
putour (plural putours)
- A keeper of a brothel; a procurer.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parson's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, section 76, line 886:
What seye we eek of putours that liven by the horrible sinne of putrie, and constreyne wommen to yelden to hem a certeyn rente of hir bodily puterie, ye, somtyme of his owene wyf or his child; as doon this baudes?- What say we also of pimps that live by the horrible sin of prostitution, and constrain women to yield them a certain rent of their bodily prostitution, yea, sometimes of his own wife or his child, as do these bawds?
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