light skirt(s) n.
a prostitute; also as adj.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Virgidemiarum (1599) Bk I 17: Like as she were some light-skirts of the rest, In mightiest ink-hornismes he can thither wrest. | |
| Return from Parnassus Pt II I ii: Hath not Shore’s wife, although a light-skirts she, Giv’n him a chaste, long-lasting memory? | |
 | Microcosmographia V xi: The excuse of a light-skirts ... to saue her honesty. | |
| Ruths recompence 67: Naomi was not of that mind to make her selfe a mother out of marriage, as many wantons and Light-skirts doe; making themselues whores, and their children bastards, and all for satisfying the rage of present lust,. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Albino and Bellama 61: Many trulls, like Menelaus wife, And she such light-skirt things for chaste ones sels, With whom dissembling and deceits are rife. | |
| The British bell-man 6: We will not build our Salvation upon the facing impudence of such light skirts [i.e. female worshippers of paganism] , such hollish Impostours. | |
| Lady Alimony II vi: I must confess Tinder that light-skirt with impetuous heat Sometimes pursu’d me. | |
| Virtus rediviva 11: How now light-skirts? have you got your Champion / To shield you from our anger? | |
| Proverbs (2nd edn) 90: A Whore [...] A light-skirts. | |
| (trans.) Pantagruelian Prognostications (1927) II 693: Those whom Venus is said to rule, as Punks, Jills, [...] Trulls, Light skirts, Wrigglers, Misses, Cats, Riggs. | |
| Philip van Artevelde Pt II iii 3: Oh, she’s a light skirts! yea, and at this present A little, as you see, concern’d with liquor [F&H]. |
In derivatives
sexual licence.
| (trans.) Estienne’s World of Wonders 101: If it were not light skirtedness and leuitie that caused her to companie with Tarquinius, she is vniustly punished. |