WOMAN OF THE TOWN, or WOMAN OF PLEASURE. A prostitute.
ONE OF US, or ONE OF MY COUSINS. A woman of the town, a harlot.
COVENT GARDEN NUN. A prostitute.
LADY OF EASY VIRTUE. A woman of the town, an impure, a prostitute.
EASY VIRTUE. A lady of easy virtue; an impure or prostitute.
LACED MUTTON. A prostitute.
CURTEZAN. A prostitute.
DRURY LANE VESTAL. A woman of the town, or prostitute: Drury-lane, and its environs, were formerly the residence of many of those ladies.
PUBLIC LEDGER. A prostitute: because, like that paper, she is open to all parties.
SQUIRREL. A prostitute: because she, like that animal, covers her back with her tail. Moretrix corpore corpus alit. Menagiana, ii. 128.
ROOM. She lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.
UNFORTUNATE WOMEN. Prostitutes; so termed by the virtuous and compassionate of their own sex.