lightskirt

See also: light-skirt and light skirt

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From light +‎ skirt.

Noun

lightskirt (plural lightskirts)

  1. (dated, derogatory) A woman of lax morality; a prostitute.
    • 1639, Nathaneel Whiting, The most pleasante historie of Albino and Bellama‎[1]:
      The Greekes were fooles, that for a light-skirt strumper, Chang'd the stil vial to a lowd-mouthd trumpet.
    • 1901 [1847], Ellen Marriage, transl., Cousin Pons‎[2], translation of Le Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac:
      “A no-better-than-she-should-be, a light-skirts that you may see half-naked any evening for a couple of francs,” La Cibot answered in an undertone for Mme. Chapoulot’s ear.
    • 1912, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love‎[3]:
      O you light-skirts! who is it now? You think I can't guess what your business is? Is it aught fresh, or only old stuff warmed?
    • 1917, George W. Gough, The Yeoman Adventurer, page 105:
      And while the peppery little beadle's eyes were searching the japer out, another added, “More's the pity, for 'er's a bit of a light-skirt.”
    • 2020 December 25, Chris Van Dusen, “Diamond of the First Water”, in Bridgerton, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Lady Portia Featherington:
      She’s lucky her gentleman agreed to a hasty marriage after she went and ruined herself. Lightskirts.

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