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Strumpet, -ed, -it, n. [ME and e.m.E. strumpet (a1327).] A woman of ill-repute; a harlot, prostitute. Also attrib. — c1590 Fowler I 296/30.
I was betrayed within Dame Pleasours hands, That harlot nice and strumped dere 1637 Edinb. B. Rec. VII 196.
Wemen's … weiring of thair gounes and pittiecottis about thair heeds and faices … [results in] matrones not being abill to be discerned frome strumpettis and louse leiving wemen 1661 R. Brown Paisley I 321.
Jean Napier, ane common strumpit, banished the town 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1933) 105.
Succubi or lightsome paramours and strumpets —attrib. 1530 Haddington B. Ct. in Grey Friars 79.
Lyand in the Strumpet Streit, callit the Well Towre
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