soiled dove
English
editNoun
editsoiled dove (plural soiled doves)
- (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, […]
- 1867, Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), Idalia
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary