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(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Other names [for prostitutes] were [...] ‘fallen angels’, [etc.].at angel, n.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Other names [for prostitutes] were [...] ‘fallen angels’, [etc.]. (con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 They [i.e. brothel prostitutes] also kicked back a third of their earnings to the house.at kick back, v.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 She seldom found it necessary to double as a prostitute, though on San Francisco’s Barbary Coast she frequently did anyway.at Barbary Coast, n.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 The males downed a shot of one-bit (12 ½c.) whiskey and the ladies fraudulent champagne.at bit, n.1
(con. late 19C) 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.at boarding house, n.
(con. 1880s) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 The older hurdy-gurdy girl, the young one expected to be a ‘box rustler’ (serve and entertain the customers in private behind curtains) [...] routinely took to alcohol and narcotics.at box rustler (n.) under box, n.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 In the Kansas trail towns common terms included [...] ‘nymphs du prairie’, ‘calico queens’, and ‘painted cats.’.at calico queen (n.) under calico, adj.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 In the Kansas trail towns common terms included [...] ‘nymphs du prairie’, ‘calico queens’, and ‘painted cats.’.at cat, n.1
Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 No ‘respectable’ young man would dare approach a bastard girl with honorable intentions. [This, of course, tended to either perpetuate the cycle or inspire the ‘woods colts’ to depart for fresh fields].at woods colt, n.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Other names [for prostitutes] were [...] ‘come-on girls’, [etc.].at come-on girl (n.) under come-on, n.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 The euphemisms for prostitution were many [...] ‘crib/parlor-house girls’, ‘Cyprians’, ‘nymphs of the pave’ [etc.].at crib, n.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 At the bottom of the scale were the girls who operated independently, [...] these ultimately tended [...] to live in segregated districts where their little cabins or ‘cribs’ [...] were illuminated by red lamps and curtains.at crib, n.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Other names [for prostitutes] were ‘Cuckoos’ [etc.].at cuckoo, n.3
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Indeed, soiled doves often found there was more money to be made in the dance trade than horizontally. [Ibid.] In the Kansas trail towns common terms included [...] ‘fallen frails’, ‘doves of the roost’ [etc.].at soiled dove, n.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Other names [for prostitutes] were [...] ‘easy women’, [etc.].at easy, adj.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Other names [for prostitutes] were [...] ‘ladies of the evening’, [etc.].at lady of the evening (n.) under evening, n.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Other names [for prostitutes] were [...] ‘fancy women’, [etc.].at fancy woman, n.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Other names [for prostitutes] were [...] ‘fast women’, [etc.].at fast, adj.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 The euphemisms for prostitution were many [...] ‘the fair and frail,’ ‘ladies of the line,’ and ‘sporting women,’ besides ‘soiled doves.’.at frail, n.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 In the Kansas trail towns common terms [for whores] included [...] ‘fallen frails’.at frail, n.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Most [landladies] were hardheaded realists [...] yet warm-hearted to a fault, ready to grubstake the miner who’d partied his money away.at grubstake, v.
Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 If they didn’t hit it rich pretty quickly [...] many eventually eased their way out of life [...] with strychnine.at hit it, v.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 There was usually a so-called ‘Hog Town’ just off the reservation, where the men could find gambling, whiskey, and a few aging and degenerate women.at hog island (n.) under hog, n.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 The lower grade of bordello came to be called a ‘honkytonk,’ from a common Southern Negro term.at honkytonk, n.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 The women who lived in ‘good houses’ considered themselves the cream of the crop, and scorned those who worked in (or out of) saloons, dance halls, and theaters.at house, n.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Fraudulent champagne (which usually ran $1 a glass, an amount on which the girl commonly got a kickback).at kickback, n.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 At Fort Russell, Wyo. Terr., in 1870, of the 24 so-called ‘laundresses,’ only five actually lived with soldier husbands, and of the rest, 17, aged 17–44, had children. [...] A sexually available laundress was paid in unspecified ‘goods and services.’.at laundress, n.
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Brawls between prostitutes, sometimes with Bowie knives, were part of the sporting life.at sporting life, n.1
(con. late 19C) Shady Ladies of the Old West 🌐 Many towns [...] had an ‘anything-goes’ suburb and a ‘deadline’ below which men could do pretty much as they pleased.at dead line (n.) under line , n.1
(con. late 19C) 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. [Ibid.] The euphemisms for prostitution were many [...] ‘ladies of the line,’ and ‘sporting women’.at line, n.1
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