Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a woman who is preoccupied by turning herself out neatly, and maintaining a concomitantly ‘precise’ character.

1672		J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 63: So many Princum Prancks there be / Pretenders to Gentility.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Mistress Princum-Prancum, such a one [i.e. ‘Stiff-starched’].
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: Mistress princum-Prancum, such a stiff, over-nice, precise Madam.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Mrs. Princum Prancum; a nice, precise, formal madam.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.