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An "anthology of prostitutes" is a pun on "anthology of prose", as "pro" is a common contraction for prostitute in Britain and elsewhere.
SUBJECT COLLECTIVE TERM academics[?] A faculty of academics accountants A balance of accountants Uncertain actors A cast of actors actors A company of actors anatomists A corps of anatomists Spurious arsonists[?] A conflagration of arsonists athletes A team of athletes automobile dealers A lot of automobile dealers Spurious pipers A poverty of pipers barbers A babble of barbers Spurious barons A thought of barons beauties A bevy of beauties bookkeepers[?] An audit of bookkeepers bureaucrats[?] A bloat of bureaucrats Spurious bureaucrats[?] A shuffle of bureaucrats cardiologists A flutter of cardiologists Spurious starlets A galaxy of starlets cobblers A drunken ship of cobblers courtiers A threatening of courtiers critics A pan of critics Spurious doctors A doctrine of doctors pupils A dilation of pupils Spurious employees[?] A staff of employees engineers A geek of engineers Spurious secret agents A bond of secret agents Spurious experts A panel of experts fishermen An exaggeration of fishermen Spurious friars[?] A scull of friars mourners A cortege of mourners geologists A conglomerate of geologists Spurious girls A giggle of girls goths A pretense of goths grandparents[?] A wisdom of grandparents hackers A cruft of hackers Spurious harpers[?] A melody of harpers hoodlums[?] A gang of hoodlums horsemen A cavalcade of horsemen husbands A multiply of husbands idiots A thicket of idiots Spurious jugglers A neverthriving of jugglers knights A banner of knights knights A rout of knights ladies[?] A bevy of ladies lawyers A huddle of lawyers lepers A colony of lepers librarians A catalogue of librarians Spurious men A band of men mathematicians A number of mathematicians mathematicians A set of mathematicians matrons[?] A riches of matrons mechanics[?] A clutch of mechanics Spurious meteorologists A shower of meteorologists Spurious misers[?] A horde of misers Spurious monks An abomination of monks (see note) Spurious natives[?] A tribe of natives nudists A hangout of nudists Spurious nuns A superfluity of nuns onlookers[?] A crowd of onlookers orthodontists[?] A brace of orthodontists Spurious painters An illusion of painters pathologists A body of pathologists Spurious performers[?] A troupe of performers philosophers A ponder of philosophers physicists A nucleus of physicists Spurious theoretical physicists A field of theoretical physicists Spurious plumbers A flush of plumbers Spurious preachers A converting of preachers prelates A pontifica of prelates princes A state of princes programmers An asylum of programmers Spurious harlots A heard of harlots prostitutes An anthology of prostitutes (see note) Spurious psychoanalysts A complex of psychoanalysts Spurious relatives[?] A descent of relatives Spurious scots A disworship of scots senators A house of senators servants An obesiance of servants sailors A crew of sailors soldiers A brigade of soldiers soldiers A company of soldiers soldiers A division of soldiers soldiers A platoon of soldiers soldiers A squad of soldiers stockbrokers[?] A portfolio of stockbrokers Spurious strumpets[?] A blast of strumpets Spurious students A class of students tailors[?] A disguising of tailors thieves A den of thieves toddlers A mine of toddlers Spurious tourists A flock of tourists tree surgeons[?] A graft of tree surgeons Spurious troops A parel of troops tubas (players) A tumult of tubas (players) Spurious vicaries (vicars) A prudence of vicaries (vicars) waiters[?] An indifference of waiters Spurious widows An ambush of widows Spurious witches A coven of witches women A gaggle of women worshipers[?] A congregation of worshipers yeomen A fellowship of yeomen
The phrase "An abomination of monks" is frequently cited as a legitimate collective noun for monks. It is actually a misinterpretation of the title of a protestant treatise written by Jan Hus around 1400.