subs. (venery).—1.  The fundament; also POSTERN-DOOR: see MONOCULAR-EYEGLASS; (2) the female pudendum; also POSTERN GATE TO THE ELYSIAN FIELDS (HERRICK): see MONOSYLLABLE.

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  1678.  COTTON, Scarronides, or, Virgil Travestie [Works (1725), 139].

        And thrice her latest Breath did roar,
In hollow Sound at POSTERN-DOOR.
    Ibid. (1st ed., p. 8).
  Whom Jove observing to be so stern,
In the wise conduct of his POSTERN.

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  1719.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, i. 264.

        So Sissly shone with Beauty’s Rays,
Reflecting from her POSTERN grace.

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  1749.  ROBERTSON OF STRUAN, Poems, 83. So to a House of Office streight A School-Boy does repair, To ease his POSTERN of its Weight.

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