Citations:lupanarian


 * 1851 — George Henry Lewes, "Valéria", The Leader, 12 July 1851 (reprinted in Dramatic Essays, 1896):
 * But the paradox is so frivolous it will not bear a moment's examination; the most cursory glance over the pages of Tacitus will acquaint any one that — granted the existence of Lysisca, granted her resemblance to the Empress, granted that she must bear the weight of all the lupanarian caprices, there still remains the Empress by daylight and her debaucheries undisguised.
 * 1879 — Edward Hayes Plumptre, Movements in Religious Thought, Macmillan and Co. (1879), page 95:
 * The "Palace of Art" which an earlier generation was taught to admire, had no galleries of lupinarian tableaux.
 * 1890 — William Samuel Lilly, On Right and Wrong, Chapman and Hall (1890), page 23:
 * Both are seekers after truth ; but the beautiful is the splendor of the true, and the sense of beauty is the light of the intellect. Materialism quenches that light. All that the artist now usually aims at is to copy exactly, to reproduce phenomena. And here, indeed, he attains some measure of success, especially if the phenomena be of the lupanarian order.
 * 1950 — Janet Flanner, "Letter from Paris", The New Yorker, 1 July 1950:
 * Le Populaire told what at least was wrong with Saigon; a feature story headlined Saigon as "THE CHICAGO OF THE FAR EAST" and described it as complete with lupanarian dance halls and dens of vice and a Hotel Continental whose French boss had apparently just celebrated with a champagne dinner his second billion francs of profit.
 * 1956 — Guy Endore, King of Paris, Simon & Schuster (1956), page 355:
 * the entire range of lupanarian activity was thoroughly explored and the ladies proved themselves apt and rapid learners, even going out into the streets, like the Roman Empress Messalina, to pick up in the cabarets further material for study and for practice."
 * 1957 — Elliot Paul, That Crazy American Music, Bobbs-Merrill (1957):
 * Tom Anderson, a patron, protector and admirer of Bolden (as Kid or King), published a Blue Book each year in Storyville, listing the lupanarian madams and all the girls— white Creoles, Creole Negroes, quadroons and pure-blooded Negroes.
 * 1986 — Augusto Roa Bastos, I, the Supreme, Knopf (1986; trans. Helen Lane), ISBN 9780394535357, page 51:
 * Sultan enters. Goes over to La Andaluza. Begins to sniff her from the heelbones up. The backs of her knees, her lupanarian crotch, the curve of her buttocks.