It is another euphemism for "prostitute", for the fact that "she is not the wife of a single man, but of anyone who pays her". He is not a female "public man," which would be a reduction of "man of public relevance."
John Rene Plaut
PUBLIC WOMAN woman who sells her body for the pleasure of others
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