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Camp follower   /kæmp fˈɑloʊər/   Listen
Camp follower

noun
1.
A prostitute who provides service to military personnel.
2.
A follower who is not a member of an ingroup.






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"Camp follower" Quotes from Famous Books



... morning a strange thing had happened. Every single camp follower—all the women and all the disorderly rabble that hangs upon the march of an army—had disappeared. They had slunk off in the night, and were utterly gone. The soldiers were gathered in the churches to hear Mass. All that could do so attended where it was ...
— A Heroine of France • Evelyn Everett-Green

... his problem. This 'perfectly good woman' of The Barbarian's—was she in fact a good woman, a lady, and therefore entitled to aid in extremity from any and all gentlemen; or was she some camp follower, entirely worthy of being considered ...
— The Barbarians • John Sentry

... decay, but had kept his position through the fact that his knowledge was a necessity to the successive chiefs and employes. Once it was true that he had been summarily removed by a new Secretary, to make room for a camp follower, whose exhaustive and intellectual services in a political campaign had made him eminently fit for anything; but the alarming discovery that the new clerk's knowledge of grammar and etymology was even worse than that of the Secretary himself, and that, through ignorance ...
— The Story of a Mine • Bret Harte



Words linked to "Camp follower" :   working girl, sporting lady, cyprian, lady of pleasure, woman of the street, prostitute, tart, fancy woman, follower, cocotte, bawd, harlot, whore



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