blowze

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  1. A beggar's trull; a beggar wench; a wench. Wed without my advice, my love, my knowledge, Ay, and a beggar, too, a trull, a blowse! Chapman, All Fools, iv. 1. Venus herself, the queen of Cytheron, … is but a blowze. Shirley, Love Tricks, iii. 5.
  2. A ruddy, fat-faced wench; a blowzy woman: applied in Shakspere to an infant. Sweet blowse, you are a beauteous blossom sure. Shak., Tit. And., iv. 2.

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  1. Also spelled blowse, blouse, blouze, English dial. blawse; cf. blowess. Origin uncertain.
 

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