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(n.) In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; - so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lorette'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/lorette.html. 1828.
 
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