10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAISTCOATEER»
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
Id. Worm Hater, iii. 4. WAISTCOATEER, s. A woman wearing a waistcoat, or
thought fit for such a habit. Who keeps the outward door there ? here's fine
shuffling. You waitcouteer, you must go back. lit. Hum. Lieut, i. 1. — D'ye think you
're here, ...
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The Plays of Philip Massinger,: The city madam. The ...
I knew you a waistcoateer, &c] It appears from innumerable passages in our old
plays, that waistcoateer was a cant term for a strumpet of the lowest kind ;
probably given to them from their usually appearing, either through choice or
necessity, ...
Philip Massinger, William Gifford, 1813
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The city madam. The guardian. A very woman. The bashful ...
I knew you a waistcoateer, &c] It appears from innumerable passages in our old
plays, that -waistcoateer was a cant term for a strumpet of the lowest kind ;
probably given to them from their usually appearing, either through choice or
necessity, ...
Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar, 1813
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Plays: The city madam. The guardian. A very woman. The ...
I knew you a waistcoateer, &c] It appears from innumerable passages in our old
plays, that waistcoateer was a cant term for a strumpet of the lowest kind ;
probably given to them from their usually appearing, either through choice or
necessity, ...
Philip Massinger, William Gifford, 1813
Sweet lady- bird, Sing in a milder key. Exit, and re-enters with Ramble and Scufflz
. Scuff. Are you grown proud ? Ramb. I knew you a waistcoateer in the garden
alleys, » Ramb. I knew you a waistcoateer, &c.] It appears from innumerable ...
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The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: ...
You waistcoateer ! 1 you must go hack. Celia. There is not, There cannot be,— (
six days, and never see me !) — There must not be desire. — Sir, do you think,
That if you had a mistress 1 Usher. 'Death, she's mad ! Celia. And were yourself
an ...
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Henry William Weber, 1812
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A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
Iii., Woman Eater, iii, 4. WAISTCOATEER,*. A woman wearing a waistcoat, or
thought fit for such a habit. Who keeps the outward door there? here's fins
shuffling. You waetcoateer, you must go back. Id. Hum. Lieut., i, 1. D'ye think you'
re here, ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright, 1867
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The works of Beaumont & Fletcher: the text formed from a new ...
216 waistcoateers, waistcoateer, iv. 172, vi. 424, x. 169 (See waistcoat-waiter)
waistcoats, waistcoat, iii. 77, vi. 72, vii. 127, ix. 142 waistcoat-waiter i. 39 (See
waist- coateers) wale ii. 488 walking-cans i. 181 Walshigham, the ballad of, ii. 1
72 ...
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Alexander Dyce, 1846
Exit, and Re-enters -with Ramona and Scum-"Liz. Scufll Are you grown proud! _
Ramli. I knew you a waistcoateer in the garden alleys', _ _ And would come to a
sailor's whistle. Secret. Good sir Ramble, Use her not roughly ; she is very tender.
Philip Massinger, W. Gifford, 1853
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Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the ...
walk-street † 1611 dollcommon † 1612 turn-up † 1612 tweak † 1617 fling-dust †
c.1625 mar-tail † c.1625 night-shade † c.1625 waistcoateer † c.1625 twigger † c.
1627 An unexpected reversal of the more common streetwalker (see above).
