morphineuse

plural morphineuses

1. historicalA woman who habitually takes morphine, a female morphine addict; also, a woman who supplies morphine to users.

   [H]ers was the restless wretchedness of a morphineuse deprived of the drug.

   1917, Aleister Crowley, Moonchild, Weiser, published 2010, page 252

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   The morphineuse is an old woman who makes a profession of injecting morphia into the smart women and the demi-mondaines who frequent her house.

   1902, Robert Hichens, Felix, page 291

   The pitted breast and arms of the morphineuse became a key element in the iconography of needle-dancing.

   2001, David Trotter, Paranoid Modernism, page 275