Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the vagina.

1678		J. Ray Proverbs (2nd edn) 59: Women think Place a sweet fish.
1841		‘My Wife She Often Pulls My Horns’ in Gentleman Steeple-Chaser 40: She often tells me to my face / That I’m not worth a button / For I cannot fill her little place, / Though she knows I’m fond of mutton.
1865		‘Rory O’More Had A Hell Of A Bore’ in Rambler’s Flash Songster 12: Yet Madam is open, and if that is the case, / I shall find it quite easy to get in the place.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 106: Endroit, m. The female pudendum; ‘the place’.

2. the life of prostitution.

1821		‘Miscellaneous’ in Fancy I IV 102: She departed the place then, and England soon after, in consequence of somebody’s bothering her about a swell’s fawney.
[1906		Sun. Times (Perth) 6 May 4/7: A young man who was found guilty of keeping a ‘place’].

3. a lavatory.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1937–84		Partridge DSUE (1984) 893: [...] C.19–early C.20.
1981		M. Keane Good Behaviour 17: If circumstances forced Mrs Brock to mention [the lavatory] she called it the Place. ‘Have you been to the Place, dear?’ or ‘Have you been?’.