Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a woman who coyly seduces men in the street in order to rob them.

1837

W. Kidd London and all its Miseries 31: ‘Wandering stars,’ who walk in our public thoroughfares to entrap the unwary. These are well-dressed, and apparently modest women, of good figure and genteel bearing. The moment they think they have made an impression, they walk leisurely along, every now and then slyly glancing round, to see if their victim is ‘in tow.’ [...] the artful stranger, who decoys him [a worthy man] away for a double purpose – first, injuring his reputation (if he be a married man), and then, robbing him of every valuable.