Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman of loose character; a wanton.
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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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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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