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Procurer   Listen
noun
Procurer  n.  
1.
One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means.
2.
One who procures the gratification of lust for another; a pimp; a pander.





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"Procurer" Quotes from Famous Books



... wonder when a great Alim in gorgeous Hegazee dress walked in and said: 'Madame, tout ce qu'on m'a dit de vous fait tellement l'eloge de votre coeur et de votre esprit que je me suis arrete pour tacher de me procurer le plaisir de votre connaissance!' A lot of Luxor people came in to pay their respects to the great man, and he said to me that he hoped I had not been molested on account of religion, and if I had I must forgive it, as the people here were so very ignorant, ...
— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon
... homage to me. Every German barber in New York will tell his patrons who my father is, and who I am, and what I live by, and whom I am running after. I shall become that worthless little fiend's lap dog, her monkey to perform tricks for her, her procurer. The German colonies in every city, large or small, that we visit will behold in me a typical example of the loathsome degree to which a scion of the German nobility can sink, into what a cesspool of vice ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann
... king, And then my thoughts do wish for to be higher. But when I view what winds the cedars toss, What storms men feels that covet for renown, I blame myself that I have wished my loss, And scorn a kingdom, though it give a crown. Ah Licia, though the wonder of my thought, My heart's content, procurer of my bliss, For whom a crown I do esteem as naught, As Asia's wealth, too mean to buy a kiss! Kiss me, sweet love, this favor do for me; Then crowns and kingdoms shall I scorn ...
— Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles - Phillis - Licia • Thomas Lodge and Giles Fletcher


Words linked to "Procurer" :   whoremonger, fancy man, whoremaster, offender, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procuress, securer, procure, pandar, wrongdoer, acquirer


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