Usually means: Attractive but promiscuous woman; derogatory.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. bona roba: Wordnik
  2. bona roba: Wiktionary
  3. Bona roba: Dictionary.com
  4. Bona roba: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. Bona roba: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  6. bona-roba: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. bona roba: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Bona roba: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. Bona-roba: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. bona-roba: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bona roba: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bona roba)

▸ noun:  (obsolete) An attractive woman, especially one who is sexually available; a prostitute or courtesan.

Similar:
broad, blowsabella, blouze, blowen, blouse, loose woman, madam, anonyma, ribibe, blowess, more...

Opposite:
honest woman, virtuous woman, chaste woman

Adjectives:
prostitute, limmer, moll, professional, accountant, steady, girlie, bawd, stable, strawberry, commercial

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Similar:
broad, blowsabella, blouze, blowen, blouse, loose woman, madam, anonyma, ribibe, blowess, more...

Opposite:
honest woman, virtuous woman, chaste woman

Adjectives:
prostitute, limmer, moll, professional, accountant, steady, girlie, bawd, stable, strawberry, commercial



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