cocotte

plural cocottes

1. small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven
2. dateddemimonde, courtesan

   This one is a woman, with all a woman’s wit, combined with the heartlessness of a cocotte.

   1911, Bram Stoker, chapter XXI, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC

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   […] she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears.

   1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC