Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pimp; a kept gallant; a page who waited on loose women.
- noun A wittol.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A pimp; a kept gallant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
pimp ; akept gallant .
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Examples
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Here's a fellow calls himself the captain of a ship, and her majesty's servant, and talks about failing, as if he were a Barbican loose-kirtle trying to keep her apple-squire ashore!
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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And you, young apple-squire, and old cuckold-maker;
Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605
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Here’s a fellow calls himself the captain of a ship, and her majesty’s servant, and talks about failing, as if he were a Barbican loose-kirtle trying to keep her apple-squire ashore!
Westward Ho! 2007
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