Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Cyprian adj.

also Cytherian
[Cyprian n.]

lewd, licentious; often used spec. of prostitutes.

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[UK]Marston Scourge of Villanie I iii: Consuming all the years in Cyprian dalliance.
M. Drayton Poly-olbion I 125: The Seaholme ... Whose roote th’ Eringo is, the reines that doth inflame So stronglie to performe the Cytheraean game.
J. Taylor Superbiae Flagellum I 36: The Paphian pastime, and the Cyprian game, The sports of Venus, and the acts of shame.
[UK]R. Brome Covent-Garden Weeded I i: A fashion [...] pursu’d by Cyprian Dames.
[UK]J. Howell Familiar Letters (1737) III 20 June 432: I receiv’d and presently ran over your Cyprian Academy with much Greediness, and no vulgar Delight.
Urquhart (trans.) Jewel 123: The exercises of the Cytheraean Academy.
[UK]Urquhart (trans.) Rabelais III xix: Tokens and representations of our desire to entice her unto the lists of a Cyprian combat.
[Ire]Head Hic et Ubique II iii: I live in bliss, by loving you. / And sooner may the Cyprian Dame, / Live chast, then I put out my flame.
W. Charleton Ephesian Matron 35: [They] finish those Cytherean Rites they are going about.
Head Floating Island 14: The Cyprian Dames waiting Gentlewoman, who had given her Lady the slip, to injoy her greater liberty.
Rochester ‘The Flea’ in Gildon Chorus Poetarum 107: Then I invoke the Cyprian Dame, / To be propitious to my Flame.
[UK]‘Roger Pheuquewell’ Hist. of the Gallantries of Bettyland 28: Neither must the Industry of the Cyprian Girls want a due Encomium.
[UK]J. Wilkes ‘Universal Prayer’ in Essay on Woman 24: Tendrils of the Cyprian Vine.
[Scot]Ranger’s Impartial List of the Ladies of Pleasure in Edinburgh Preface: Mrs Japp [...] has for these many years kept the most celebrated Temple for performing the sacred rites of the Cyprian Deity.
[UK]Belle’s Stratagem 7: Suppose the club subscribe an annuity to that lady, providing she draw Florizel into her Cyprian circle.
[UK]Belle’s Stratagem 14: If she should ride in the track of Letitia, she may be still kept on the Cyprian turf?
[Ind]Hicky’s Bengal Gaz. 11-18 Aug. n.p.: A professed Friend both to the Cyprian Goddess, and Tent-pole Impromptu.
[UK]‘Peter Pindar’ ‘The Lousiad’ Works (1794) I 282: The frail Fair-ones in the Cyprian trade.
[UK]‘Peter Pindar’ ‘Plaintive Epistle to Mr. Pitt’ Works (1796) IV 44: Let Queensb’ry nobly pinch his Cyprian sinnings.
[UK] ‘Sung at Sadlers Wells’ in Songster’s Companion 8: When I first saw the Cyprian flower, With stately pride I scorn’d to yield.
[UK]J. Ashton Eng. Caricature and Satire on Napoleon (1884) I 16: His mother, too, a Cyprian charmer.
[UK]W. Combe Doctor Syntax, Wife (1868) 264/2: And I must be completely stupid / If I do not find a Cupid [...] For he’s an urchin that escapes / From Cyprian form to other shapes.
[UK]Pierce Egan’s Life in London 8 Oct. 710/2: Ann Coates, an unfortunate member of the Cyprian corps, and a fashionably attired young man, named John Simpson, were charged with assaulting a sailor [...] with intent to rob him.
[US]J.B. Skillman N.Y. Police Reports 15: Mr G.W.S. is wwell known [...] to the Cyprian ladies of this city.
[Aus]Bell’s Life in Sydney 27 Sept. 2/5: [headline] Another Cyprean [sic] Queen in Trouble.
[UK]Swell’s Night Guide 35: The list of cyprian votaries differs in some degree from the Cockney Paphians.
[UK]Peeping Tom (London) 28 112/3: [I] am consequently obliged to resort to the cyprian Venuses.
[UK]C. Deveureux Venus in India I 43: It was nearly two months [...] since I had last indulged in the delights of Cyprian pleasures.
[US](con. 1877) E. Cunningham Triggernometry (1957) 58: The gentleman friend of a Cyprian beauty of the town tried the ancient badger-game on Wes.

In compounds

Cyprian academy (n.)

a brothel.

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[UK]Crim.-Con. Gaz. 17 Aug. 269/2: She became an inmate of the notorious cyprian academy the White House.
Cyprian arbour (n.)

(also Cyprian bower) the vagina.

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[UK] ‘Mars and Venus’ in Bentley’s Misc. Mar. 249: And in her Cyprian bow’r that night, / (If ancient scandal tell aright,) / Forgetful of her recent wound, / In place of Mars, another found.
[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
[UK]Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 88: Cyprine, f. The female pudendum; ‘the Cyprian-arbour’.
Cyprian science (n.)

sexual intercourse.

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[UK]J.P. Hurstone Piccadilly Ambulator II 86: His grace was taken in for a pretty good sum, as the lady was completely adept in the Cyprian science.