soiled dove

English

Noun

soiled dove (plural soiled doves)

1. (obsolete, euphemistic) A disreputable woman, sometimes a prostitute.
   • 1867, Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), Idalia

     […] thought the telegraphist, with a yawn, returning to his dog-eared green-covered shilling novel, relating the pungent adventures of a soiled dove of St. John's Wood, […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary