Cyprian adj.
lewd, licentious; often used spec. of prostitutes.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Scourge of Villanie I iii: Consuming all the years in Cyprian dalliance. | |
 | Poly-olbion I 125: The Seaholme ... Whose roote th’ Eringo is, the reines that doth inflame So stronglie to performe the Cytheraean game. | |
| Superbiae Flagellum I 36: The Paphian pastime, and the Cyprian game, The sports of Venus, and the acts of shame. | |
| Covent-Garden Weeded I i: A fashion [...] pursu’d by Cyprian Dames. | |
| Familiar Letters (1737) III 20 June 432: I receiv’d and presently ran over your Cyprian Academy with much Greediness, and no vulgar Delight. | |
| (trans.) Jewel 123: The exercises of the Cytheraean Academy. | |
| (trans.) Rabelais III xix: Tokens and representations of our desire to entice her unto the lists of a Cyprian combat. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | 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. | |
| Ephesian Matron 35: [They] finish those Cytherean Rites they are going about. | |
| Floating Island 14: The Cyprian Dames waiting Gentlewoman, who had given her Lady the slip, to injoy her greater liberty. | |
| ‘The Flea’ in Gildon Chorus Poetarum 107: Then I invoke the Cyprian Dame, / To be propitious to my Flame. | |
| Hist. of the Gallantries of Bettyland 28: Neither must the Industry of the Cyprian Girls want a due Encomium. | |
| ‘Universal Prayer’ in Essay on Woman 24: Tendrils of the Cyprian Vine. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | 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. | |
| Belle’s Stratagem 7: Suppose the club subscribe an annuity to that lady, providing she draw Florizel into her Cyprian circle. | |
| Belle’s Stratagem 14: If she should ride in the track of Letitia, she may be still kept on the Cyprian turf? | |
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | Hicky’s Bengal Gaz. 11-18 Aug. n.p.: A professed Friend both to the Cyprian Goddess, and Tent-pole Impromptu. | |
| ‘The Lousiad’ Works (1794) I 282: The frail Fair-ones in the Cyprian trade. | |
| ‘Plaintive Epistle to Mr. Pitt’ Works (1796) IV 44: Let Queensb’ry nobly pinch his Cyprian sinnings. | |
| ‘Sung at Sadlers Wells’ in Songster’s Companion 8: When I first saw the Cyprian flower, With stately pride I scorn’d to yield. | |
| Eng. Caricature and Satire on Napoleon (1884) I 16: His mother, too, a Cyprian charmer. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bell’s Life in Sydney 27 Sept. 2/5: [headline] Another Cyprean [sic] Queen in Trouble. | |
| Swell’s Night Guide 35: The list of cyprian votaries differs in some degree from the Cockney Paphians. | |
| Peeping Tom (London) 28 112/3: [I] am consequently obliged to resort to the cyprian Venuses. | |
| Venus in India I 43: It was nearly two months [...] since I had last indulged in the delights of Cyprian pleasures. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | (con. 1877) Triggernometry (1957) 58: The gentleman friend of a Cyprian beauty of the town tried the ancient badger-game on Wes. |
In compounds
a brothel.
| Crim.-Con. Gaz. 17 Aug. 269/2: She became an inmate of the notorious cyprian academy the White House. |
(also Cyprian bower) the vagina.
| ‘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. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
| Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 88: Cyprine, f. The female pudendum; ‘the Cyprian-arbour’. |
the vagina.
| Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 96: After being entered sometime into the Cyprian cabinet [...] the delight this occasions can only be felt, as no language can describe such extasy. |
the vagina.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
the vagina.
| Swell’s Night Guide 95: The hair [...] which shades the Cyprian fountain is jet black. |
sexual intercourse.
| Piccadilly Ambulator II 86: His grace was taken in for a pretty good sum, as the lady was completely adept in the Cyprian science. |
the penis.
| (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 44: Another again [would call it] her branch of coral, her placket-racket, her Cyprian sceptre, her tit-bit, her bob-lady. | |
| Memoirs of Madge Buford 8: That stiff staff of yours; that Cyprian sceptre of delight. |
the penis.
| Cythera’s Hymnal 24: Cease your softed and honied accents, / Chafe my Cyprian wand no more. |