waistcoateer

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-- "I know the face of yonder waistcoateer," continued the guide;

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  1. One who wears a waistcoat as a principal garment, without a coat or upper gown; in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in London, a prostitute (probably from being so dressed). Who keeps the outward door there? here's fine shuffling! You waistcoateer, you must go back. Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, i. 1. I knew you a waistcoateer in the garden alleys, And would come to a sailor's whistle. Massinger, City Madam, iii. 1.

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  1. Formerly also spelled wastcoateer, wast-couteer, wastcoatier; from waistcoat + -eer.
 

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