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thesaurus--general terms surrounding prostitution

CRACKISH. Whorish.
TOWN. To be on the town; to live by prostitution. [For all meanings see TOWN]
COMPANY. To see company; to enter into a course of prostitution.
SQUIRREL. A prostitute: because she, like that animal, covers her back with her tail. Moretrix corpore corpus alit. Menagiana, ii. 128.
BARBER'S CHAIR. She is as common as a barber's chair, in which a whole parish sit to be trimmed; said of a prostitute.
NUGGING DRESS. A rather a loose kind of dress, denoting a courtesan. [For all meanings see NUGGING DRESS]
TALLY MEN. Brokers that let out clothes to the women of the town. See RABBIT SUCKERS.
PRICK-EARED. A prick-eared fellow; one whose ears are longer than his hair; an appellation frequently given to puritans, who considered long hair as the mark of the whore of Babylon.
BALLUM RANCUM. A hop or dance, where the women are all prostitutes. N.B. The company dance in their birth-day suits.
STATE. To lie in state; to be in bed with three harlots.