white slave

white slave
   a white prostitute working outside Europe
   Usually under a pimp's strict control or in a brothel. White slavery is the business in which a white slaver is engaged as a pimp:
    London, or rather those who carry on the
    White Slave Traffic, provides the largest market in the world for the sale of human flesh. (Paxman, 1998, quoting Stead, c.1882)
    White slavery — the seduction and selling, and of course buying, of women for immoral purposes... (Londres, 1928, in translation)
    I'm not a white slaver in case they exist. (P. D. James, 1972 — a young woman was being invited to go on a journey with a stranger)

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  • white slave — white slave, adj. 1. a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution. 2. a white person held as a slave. [1825 35] * * * …   Universalium

  • white slave — n. a woman enticed or forced into or held in prostitution for the profit of others white slave adj …   English World dictionary

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  • white slave — noun a woman sold into prostitution • Hypernyms: ↑prostitute, ↑cocotte, ↑whore, ↑harlot, ↑bawd, ↑tart, ↑cyprian, ↑fancy woman, ↑working girl, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • white slave — A term formerly used in the United States statutes to indicate a female with reference to whom an offense is committed under the so called Mann White Slave Traffic Act of June 25, 1910, prohibiting the transportation in interstate and foreign… …   Black's law dictionary

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