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Bankside lady

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A prostitute. British, archaic, slang

    "Come, I will send for a whole coach or two / Of Bankside ladies, and we will be jovial."

Etymology

A reference to the brothels that were once common in Bankside, Southwark (now part of London) in medieval England.

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