Green’s Dictionary of Slang

waistcoateer n.

a prostitute.

1619		Fletcher Humorous Lieutenant II iv: You waistcoateer you must go back.
1632		Massinger City-Madam III i: I knew you a wastcotier in the garden allies, And would come to a saylors whistle.
1639		Beaumont & Fletcher Wit Without Money IV iv: D’ye think you’re here, sir, Among your wast-coateers, your base wenches, That scratch at such occasions? you’re deluded.
1640		H. Mill Nights Search I 96: Wastecoters [at] eighteene pence a piece.
1664		C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 33: All this Geer / Was order’d by a Waistcoateer.
1675		Character of a Town-Gallant in C. Hindley Old Bk Collector’s Misc. 2: Covent Garden, Silk-Gowns, and Wapping Wastcoatiers, are equally his Game.
1675		T. Duffet Psyche Debauch’d II iii: Poor strolling Cracks and Wastcoteers.
1680–1		N. Lee Princess of Cleve Prologue: The little Mob, the City Waistcoateer, Will pinch the Back to make the Buttock bare.
1687		T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Works (1760) I 80: Carry off those wastecoateers and make them atone [...] with a fortnight’s beating of hemp.
1712		R. Herrick Poor Robin n.p.: Some shall be so incentive to lust, that every woman shall be devil enough to tempt him, from the Covent Garden silk gowns, to the Wapping waistcoateers [F&H].
1822		(con. early 17C) W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II 130: I know the face of yonder waistcoateer, [...] I could wager a rose-noble [...] that she has clean head-gear and a soiled night-rail.
1916		Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 176: The grave and mocking music of the lutenists or the frank laughter of waistcoateers.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 391: [He] hankered about the coffee-houses and low taverns with crimps, ostlers, bookies, Paul’s men, runners, flatcaps, waistcoateers.