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Definition: White Slave |
White SlaveNoun1. A woman sold into prostitution. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | The White slave. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The white slave by Bartley Campbell. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Conventions of May 18, 1904, and May 4, 1910, regarding the suppression of the White Slave Traffic. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) |
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Expression using "white slave": white slave traffic. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
white slave | 61 |
black mistress white slave | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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. | ||
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. | |
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