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ˌwaistcoaˈteer
Also 7 wastecoateer, -coater, wastcoateer, -coatier, westecoateer, 8 wastecateer, 9 waistcoatteer.
[f. waistcoat + -eer1.]
†1. A low-class prostitute. Obs. exc. Hist.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Wit without Money iv. iv, Luce. Doe you thinke you are here sir amongst your wastcoateers, your base Wenches that scratch at such occasions? 1675Char. Town-Gallant 3 Every thing with him is an Incentive to Lust, and every Woman Devil enough to tempt him, Covent-Garden, Silk-gowns, and Wapping Wastcoatiers, are equally his Game. 1822Scott Nigel xvii, ‘I know the face of yonder waistcoateer’, continued the guide. 1916Joyce Portrait of Artist (1969) v. 176 The grave and mocking music of the lutenists or the frank laughter of waistcoateers. 1922[see flat-cap 2].
2. nonce-use. A person wearing a waistcoat of a specified fashion.
1825T. L. Beddoes Let. 11 Jan. (1894) 49 Here followed a long Brutus & Cassius discourse between a shilling⁓buttoned waist-coatteer of a porter and myself. |