croshabellとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

croshabell (複数形 croshabells)

1. (obsolete) A prostitute.
   • 1607, “How George Read a Play-Book to a Gentleman”, in The Jests of George Peele; republished in The Works of George Peele, volume 2, 2nd edition, London: William Pickering, 1829, page 290:

     […] in Italian called a curtezan, in Spain, a margerite, in French une curtain, in England, among the barbarous, a whore, but among the gentle, their usual associates, a punk: but now the word refined being latest, and the authority brought from a climate as yet unconquered, the fruitful county of Kent, they call them croshabell, which is a word but lately used, and fitting with their trade, being of a lovely and courteous condition.

同意語

• harlot, lady of the night, tweak; see also Thesaurus:prostitute

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