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‘On her arrival in London the country wench of Michaelmas Term is immediately given the advice by her pander that ‘Virginity is no city trade’.’
‘Fiesta also means ‘party’ in Spanish, and Trujillo's panders always tell the girls they are invited to a party.’
‘Figures representing the other three terms (Trinity, Hilary and Easter) enter, leading a ‘poor’ man who is made ‘rich’ as they present him with rich apparel, a page and a pander.’
1.1archaic A person who assists the immoral desires or evil designs of others.
‘the lowest panders of a venal press’
‘Milton had no doubt that God, Divine Providence and History itself had willed that the saints prevail over the King and his Anglicans, panders and sycophants.’
Origin
Late Middle English (as a noun): from Pandare, the name of a character in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (see Pandarus). The verb dates from the early 17th century.