park women

park women
   obsolete
   prostitutes
   As found in 19th-century London, where a plethora of open spaces offered convenient location:
    Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. (Mayhew, 1862)

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