Pander
WordNet
noun
(1) Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
verb
(2) Arrange for sexual partners for others
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Etymology
From Chaucer's character (in Troilus and Criseyde), from (found in Boccaccio), from , from . (See also Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida)
Noun
- A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. (Later panderer.)
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
- It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
- An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
- An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.