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Definition of Loose woman
1. Noun. A woman adulterer.
Generic synonyms: Adulterer, Fornicator
Definition of Loose woman
1. Noun. A sexually promiscuous woman; a prostitute. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loose Woman
Literary usage of Loose woman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Used for a loose woman, probably from the gay plumage of that bird. Warburton
remarks, that putta in Italian has also both these senses. ..."
2. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1826)
"... the injury of the sub- ject : a loose woman may hare it in her power to
fascinate, and a modest woman г captivate. So fair a landscape cbarm'd the ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... woman,' and the Mahometans ltd Hindoos often cast reproaches in some such
tords as those : ' Thou son of a loose woman.' 'Thoo »ou of a beggar woman. ..."
4. The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary: Comprising the Terms and Phrases of American by Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf, James Christopher Cahill (1922)
"Long time, and long use beyond the memory of man, suffices for right. Co. Litt 115.
loose woman. A loose woman, a •woman of loose character, ..."
5. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"Their house is a bad house, and her general character that of a loose woman.
Her father is at sea. Hannah Downes and Sally Chase have been committed to the ..."
6. Man's unconscious passion by Wilfrid Lay (1920)
"In one are those he may gratify in the loose woman's company, ... In his relations
with the loose woman, unconscious passion for his mother is active in his ..."