panders

Noun

pander (plural panders)

1. A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer.
   • […] if ever you prove false one, to another since I have taken such paine to bring you together let all pittifull goers betweene be cald to the worlds end after my name, call them all Panders, let all constant men be Troylusses all false woemen Cressids, and all brokers betweene panders1609, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 3

   Synonyms:

   panderer, abbot, bludger, bully, cock-bawd, dalaal, fishmonger, flashman, fleshmonger, hoon

2. An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
3. An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
4. (broadly) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
   • Camillo was his helpe in this, his Pandar:
     There is a Plot against my Life, my Crowne;
     All's true that is mistrusted: that false Villaine,
     Whom I employ'd, was pre-emplot'dc. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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