Pandar

/ˈpændə/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete) A person who furthers the illicit love affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A person who furthers the illicit love affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male.
2. To pander (assist in the gratification of).

Example Sentences

From my exceſſe of moyſture, vvith ſuch coſt, / And can you yeeld no other retribution, / But to deuoure your maker, pandar, ſponge, / Impoyſner, all grovvne barren?

That degenerate aſſembly even pandared to the libidinous epicuriſm of this many-wived tyrant; and outraged, at his command, the rights of decorum, of juſtice, and of nature.

[…]not to be confounded by all the efforts of interested writers, who would abuse the valuable immunities of the press to the wretched purposes of venal detraction, and a lucrative pandaring to the morbid tastes of the public.

He had, during many years, earned his daily bread by pandaring to the vicious taste of the pit, and by grossly flattering rich and noble patrons.

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• pandars
• pander
• pandaring
• pandared

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