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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean - nowadays it sorta is, it's been heavily relegated to sexually fetishised contexts.

But the reason a "Dirndl" is called that is, because "Dirne" is a word that used to mean just "woman" but went through a linguistic evolution to mean "prostitute" quite a while ago. Off the top of my head, I don't know of an example that happened similiarly in English, but I'd guess there's bound to be something like that there, too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

"Courtesan" is an example in English, originally meaning 'noblewoman'.

There's also "minx", which originally just meant 'person'. (It's a cousin of "mensch".)