dress for sale

dress for sale
   American
   a prostitute
   In this CB use, the dress is not what's on offer and the transaction contemplated is one of hire or licence. In 19th-century London a dress lodger was a prostitute clothed in suitable style by a pimp, working from a brothel called a dress-house:
    The dress-lodger probably lives some distance from the immoral house by whose owner she is employed. (Mayhew, 1862)
   Today an American pimp who decks out a prostitute is said to provide her with bonds or threads.

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