procurer

• n. 拉皮条者

1. someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

2. someone who obtains or acquires;

"the procurer of opera tickets"

来自procure,费力取得，获得，-er,人。来自该词的古词义。

procurer (n.)

late 14c., "advocate, spokesman," from Anglo-French procurour, Old French procureur (13c., Modern French procureur), from Latin procuratorem (see procurator). Meaning "contriver" is from mid-15c. Specifically of one who supplies women to gratify the lusts of another from 1630s. Fem. form procuress is shortened from Old French procureresse.