Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Guinea-hen

A courtesan who is won by money.

“Ere ... I would drown myself for the love of a Guinea-hen, I would change my humanity with a baboon.” —Shakespeare: Othello, i. 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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