Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

de boulevard

English translation:

working the streets

Added to glossary by Lydia De Jorge
Feb 26, 2020 17:55
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Spanish term

de boulevard

Spanish to English Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
A newspaper article from the 1890s quoted by an Argentine art historian in an article about a controversy in a Buenos Aires art salon: a woman painter was asked to remove her nude pastel, whereas a male artist was not asked to remove his nude of a penitent Magdalene:

Ahora bien, en esa exposición hubo otros desnudos femeninos, contra los cuales no hubo objeciones de las Damas del Carmen. Un artículo en El Nacional observaba precisamente esto, señalando que una Magdalena arrepentida que llevaba la firma del pintor francés Feyen Perrin era “una Magdalena de boulevard [...] que tiene de todo menos de arrepentida”

Street-walking Magdalene??
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Mar 2, 2020 21:35: Lydia De Jorge Created KOG entry

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working the streets

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of the street

Streetwalker or (streetwalking) Magdalene also works. There are several euphemisms for prostitution.
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walking the streets

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Streetwalker | Definition of Streetwalker at Dictionary.com
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Streetwalker definition, a prostitute who solicits on the streets. See more.
Street-walker | Definition of Street-walker at Dictionary.com
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a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
Streetwalkers - definition of Streetwalkers by The Free ...
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Streetwalkers synonyms, Streetwalkers pronunciation, Streetwalkers translation, English dictionary definition of Streetwalkers. n. A prostitute, especially one who solicits in the streets. street′walk′ing n. n a prostitute who solicits on the streets
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