procurer
英 [prə'kjʊərə]
美
- n. 拉皮条者
中文词源
procurer 拉皮条者
来自procure,费力取得，获得，-er,人。来自该词的古词义。
英文词源
- procurer (n.)
- late 14c., "advocate, spokesman," from Anglo-French procurour, Old French procureur (13c., Modern French procureur), from Latin procuratorem (see procurator). Meaning "contriver" is from mid-15c. Specifically of one who supplies women to gratify the lusts of another from 1630s. Fem. form procuress is shortened from Old French procureresse.