blowse
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Noun
blowse (plural blowses)
- (obsolete) Alternative spelling of blowze (“A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.”)
- c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Sweet blowse, you are a beauteous blossom, sure.
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References
- “blowse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “blowse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.