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tarts

noun

plural of tart

as in prostitutes

a woman who engages in sexual activities for money another movie featuring an Old West saloon scene with the requisite gamblers, gunslingers, and tarts

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Recent Examples of tarts For pies and tarts with distinct slices, prioritize apples that hold their shape. — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 Downstairs, visitors enjoy platters and egg tarts crafted from it. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 Delicious food — Jamaican patties, raspberry tarts, Nigerian-style goat, salmon tamales — scented the streets. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 Its breakfast, lunch and dinner menus aren’t changing, but thanks to a bigger pastry case, there is more availability of sweet treats like cakes and tarts. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026 The food South African chef Celeste Kotze was at Mala Mala game reserve in South Africa, hence the range of southern African favourites – butternut salads, milk tarts, Bailey’s ice-cream – alongside multinational treats. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026 That includes macarons, Mille-Feuille (Napoleons), cinnamon buns, cream puffs, eclairs, a variety of tarts, cupcakes, and more. — Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026 The pastry program comes courtesy of legendary French pastry chef François Payard, so the glass cases are particularly dangerous—filled with macarons, éclairs, Napoleons, fruit tarts, canelés, and excellent croissants. — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026 Freeport Bakery owners, Walter and Marlene Goetzeler, opened Freeport Bakery in 1987, selling wedding cakes as well as an assortment of pastries, cookies, muffins, cupcakes, and fruit tarts. — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2026

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Brought to Spain, the Colombian prostitutes are required to work off a debt run up by not only the airfare but much more.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
The mayor is missing, the mafia is involved, a mad scientist rules the basement and all the prostitutes are vampires.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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