He knew Prince Henry of Prussia had visited the Club three years earlier and sipped champagne from a courtesan's shoe.

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The new, glossy Umrao Jaan is a retread of the critically acclaimed 1981 commercial hit about a 19th century north Indian courtesan.

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The Zonda looks like what it is, a domesticated Le Mans prototype, a hard-eyed courtesan in a carbon-fiber corset laced with an assassin's piano wire.

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When Mongryong goes away to Seoul to study, his bride falls into the hands of the evil new provincial governor, who wants to turn her into a courtesan.

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Dramatically, the German soprano worked hard to fulfill Decker's vision of an exhausted, consumptive courtesan compelled to put on her red dress and high-heel shoes to entertain her savage admirers.

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Each courtesan had a name chosen by her peers.

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Exit from what is now the back (but was originally the main entrance with an impressive carved gate), past the royal baths to the small abode of the courtesan Rai Parveen, set in a garden designed in the classic Mughal style.

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