trollopy

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They were all slip-shoed; stockingless some; only under-petticoated all; their gowns, made to cover straddling hoops, hanging trollopy, and tangling about their heels; but hastily wrapt round them, as soon as I came up stairs.

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  • They were all slip-shoed; stockingless some; only under-petticoated all; their gowns, made to cover straddling hoops, hanging trollopy, and tangling about their heels; but hastily wrapt round them, as soon as I came up stairs. —  Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9
  • Not only have multiple eyewitnesses caught the trollopy, overly-made-up cunt and her dirty hippie mystery man tongue-diving on several occasions, they were also seen at a Moody Blues concert while Grampy McThuselah sat at home creakily winding up his victrola. —  WTF Is It Now?!?
  • He sent home to his mother regularly, and lately had had out his brother Sam, and a good job too, to have him out of the way, only what must he do but go and marry that there trollopy girl, as was no good. —  That Stick
  • The moment they stopped, a trollopy-looking maidservant, seemingly in waiting for them at the door, stepped forward, and more intent on telling the news than giving them any help, immediately began with, —  Mansfield Park
  • In fact, it was not a world for a lady with a train, though Eleanor saw some trollopy immigrant "ladies" emerging from a big tent on a back lot decked with tawdry lace and sporting trains in inverse proportions to the sufficiency of their "h's." —  The Freebooters of the Wilderness
 

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