Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete One wearing a waistcoat; especially, a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet.

Etymologies

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waistcoat +‎ -eer

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Examples

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

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

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