Dutch widow

noun

Dutch widow

noun
1

Archaic, Obsolete A female prostitute.

  • Dra. He says none came in yet, sir, but one mistress Florence. Hoa. What is that Forence? A widow? Dra. Yes, a Dutch widow. Hoa. How? Dra. That's an English drab, sirc. 1604–1606 (date written; published 1608), Thomas Middleton, “A Trick to Catch the Old One”, in A[rthur] H[enry] Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton […] (The English Dramatists), volume II, London: John C. Nimmo […], published 1885, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 301:

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