1.  A loose woman; a wanton: see TART. [NARES: a blue-gown was the dress of ignominy for a harlot in the house of correction].

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  1578.  WHETSTONE, Promos and Cassandra, iii. 6.

          Lamia.  Teare not my clothes, my friends, they cost more than you are aware.
  Bedell.  Tush, soon you shall have a BLEW GOWN; for these take you no care.

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  1609.  DEKKER, The Honest Whore [DODSLEY], Old Plays (REED), iii. 464. Your puritanical Honest Whore sits in a BLUE GOWN.… Where? Do you know the brick house of castigation?

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  2.  (old).—A beggar: especially a licensed beggar who wore the dress as a badge.

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