Lorette

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lorette \Lo`rette"\, n. [F.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]