Prostitute
This headword, in its source, turns on judgment over reputation and broken candour rather than anything explicit. The dream may ask where you fear scorn for conduct others disapprove of, and whether a worry about honesty, in how you present yourself or trust another's faithfulness, is straining a bond and stirring suspicion.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for prostitute, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you are in the company of a prostitute, denotes that you will incur the righteous scorn of friends for some ill-mannered conduct.
For a young woman to dream of a prostitute, foretells that she will deceive her lover as to her purity or candor. This dream to a married woman brings suspicion of her husband and consequent quarrels.
[177] See Harlot.
Fontaine, 1862
For a young man to dream of associating with prostitutes, is a sign of poverty and disgrace: if he dreams of seeing these girls anywhere, it foretells misfortune or bad luck: for a girl to dream of them, is a sign that her chastity is in danger.