subs. phr. (old).—A harlot. For synonyms, see BARRACK-HACK and TART.
1602. DEKKER, The Honest Whore [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, iii. 479]. Yet, if I go among citizen’s wives, they jeer at me; if I go among the LOOSE-BODIED GOWNS, they cry a pox on me, because I go civilly attired, and swear their trade was a good trade, till such as I am took it out of their hands.
