country-club girls

country-club girls
   American
   prostitutes operating out of town
   When the law closed New Orleans brothels in 1917 to remove temptation from servicemen, many of the prostitutes moved into the countryside:
    The country-club girls are ruining my business. (Longstreet, 1956 — an operator left in the city was complaining)

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