> best of all, i had no idea "Cyprian" meant "prostitute". why doesn't a
> search for "Cyprian" yield synonyms?

`Cyprus' was another name for Aphrodite, since she is supposed to
have come to Greece from Anatolia via Cyprus.

As synonyms go, this one is unusually archaic...

Regards, Frank

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