'Lorette' definitions:

Definition of 'Lorette'

From: GCIDE
  • Lorette \Lo`rette"\, n. [F.] In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided. [1913 Webster]