slang. [Fr.] A courtesan of a class which at one time had its headquarters in the vicinity of the Church of Notre Dame de Lorette in Paris. Hence Lorettism, the condition of life of the lorettes of Paris.
1862. Sat. Rev., 1 Feb., 122/2. No doubt Mr. Coleridge was quite right in saying that Lorettism culminated in Miss Rogers, alias Willoughby.
1865. Pall Mall Gaz., 9 Sept., 9/2. The brilliant ball given by the aristocracy of the Parisian lorettes—for even lorettism has its aristocracy.
