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White Slave

Definition: White Slave

White Slave

Noun

1. A woman sold into prostitution.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms within Context: White Slave

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Libertine

Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: White Slave

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Fighting the White Slave Traffic (1929)

The White Slave Catchers (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: White Slave

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • White Slave (Schiave Bianche: Violenza in Amazzonia) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: White Slave

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The White slave. Credit: Library of Congress.

The white slave by Bartley Campbell. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: White Slave

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Conventions of May 18, 1904, and May 4, 1910, regarding the suppression of the White Slave Traffic. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: White Slave

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

Malta

The White Slave Traffic Ordinance and the Criminal Code prohibit procurement for prostitution, pornography, sexual offenses, defilement of minors, illegal detainment, unlawful carnal knowledge, and indecent assault. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: White Slave

Expression using "white slave": white slave traffic. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: White Slave

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

white slave

61

black mistress white slave

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: White Slave

Language Translations for "white slave"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

prostitutë e detyruar. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تجارة الرقيق الأبيض (white slave traffic). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πόρνη κρατούμενη ακουσίωσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

סחר ב שים (white slave traffic). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

prostituáltnak eladott nő. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itewhay aveslay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

проститутка (call-girl, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, prossie, prossy, prostitute, scarlet, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, tramp, trollop, trull, whore). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

belo roblje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trata de blancas (white slave traffic). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

con gái bị lừa đưa ra nước ngo i l m đĩ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: White Slave

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Anser erythropus, Callithrix aurita, Canarium euphyllum, Cemiostoma coffeella, Ceratovacuna lanigera, Leucoptera coffeella, Liriodendron tulipifera, Luscinia svecica cyanecula, Mniotilta varia, Motacilla alba alba, Oregma lanigera, Oregma lanigerum, Perileucoptera coffeella, Tripneustes ventricosus, Verbascum lychnititis L.. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: White Slave

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-i-l-s-t-v-w"

-2 letters: alewives, elatives, heaviest, leaviest, vealiest, wavelets.

-3 letters: elative, estival, evilest, halites, heavies, heliast, lievest, sheltie, thieves, twelves, velites, wavelet, waviest, wealths, weevils, whistle.

-4 letters: awhile, elates, elites, elvish, evites, halest, halite, halves, haslet, heaves, helves, lathes, lathis, latish, lavish, leaves, lethes, levies, listee, livest, saithe, saltie, shavie, sheave, sheila, shelta, shelve, silvae, sleave.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Historic
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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