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Webster 1913 Edition

Pornography

Por-nog′ra-phy

,

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] a harlot +

-graphy

.]

1.

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

2.

(Med.)

A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.