Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) the ‘red-light’ area of a town.

2001

(con. late 19C) C. Jeffords Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Cattle towns, mining towns, railroad towns, and towns near military installations [...] invariably had a sufficient number of girls to warrant a ‘line,’ a ‘maiden lane,’ a ‘boarding house’ or two.

1. (also maiden’s prayers) port and lemonade.

1878		Arthur Lloyd ‘The American Drinks’ in Comic Songs 13: There’s stone-fence, a rattlesnake, a renovator, locomotive [...] a lady’s blush, a cocktail.
1915		T. Burke Nights in Town 393: At the American end of the bar [...] drinking Horse’s Necks, Maiden’s Prayers, Mother’s Milks, Manhattans, and Scotch Highballs.

2. (Aus.) ginger beer and raspberry cordial.

1884		Gippsland Times (Vic.) 18 July 1/4: Which largesse [...] we expended in a couple of lunches at Roberts’s, where you get — or used to — four courses and a ‘maiden’s-blush’ for a shilling.
1900		Queenslander (Brisbane) 21 Apr. 730/4: Mortimer said: "I vote we have a new drink. [...] ’ ‘What sort is it?’ replied Tom. ‘Oh, it’s a mixture called “the maiden’s blush”.’ [...] ‘Tell them what it's made of, Roberts,’ said Mortimer with a wink. ‘Ginger beer and cloves, and orange juice and honey,’ came the pat reply. It really was composed of brandy, curacoa, cloves, and water.
1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 45: Maiden’s blush, ginger beer and raspberry.

legal sessions where no prisoners are sentenced to death.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Maiden-sessions when none are Hang’d.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.