1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals II. 286 Not long after she had entered upon this single method of Street-walking, she fell into the Company of a Gentleman.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. ii. 10 The Justice..declaring she was guilty within the Statute of Street-walking, ordered her to Bridewell for a Month.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. i. 13 Jess Cantrips..had the honour to be transported to the plantations, for street-walking and pocket-picking.

1864 in T. P. Lowry Story Soldiers wouldn't Tell (1994) vii. 85 ‘Streetwalking’, soliciting, stopping or talking with men on the streets..are [all] prohibited and forbidden.

1964 J. Stewart tr. G. Simenon Maigret Mystified iv. 50 She usually sticks to one or two regular boyfriends. It's only when she falls back on street-walking again that we pick her up.

2007 Evening News (Norwich) (Nexis) 26 Oct. Police told families that while older prostitutes were finding ways other than streetwalking to do business, new girls were immediately taking their places on the streets.

1726 Some Considerations upon Street-walkers 6 It will be readily allowed, that a Street-walking Whore can never answer either of these Ends.

1767 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) III. 144 I spoke of street-walking publishers, whom it would be ridiculous in government to take up.

c1770 in Satir. Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 248 For so much as the street-walking hussies They will have their hair drest you see.

1822 W. Combe Hist. Johnny Quæ Genus i. 23 She is more common Than is the worst street-walking woman.

1857 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 217/1 Street-walking dogs would sneak in, predatorily minded and lured by the rank odours of the Wallachian kitchen.

1925 R. J. Purcell in L. B. Schmidt & E. D. Ross Readings Econ. Hist. Amer. Agric. viii. 141 The Cincinnati Liberty Bell advised Yankee, job-hunting, streetwalking mechanics to come to a rapidly settling locality which is self-supporting and democratic.

1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male xxiii. 699 This..age group includes the street-walking, tavern-frequenting, exhibitionistic city homosexual group.

2006 Evening Standard (Nexis) 14 Dec. 18 Many of Ipswich's streetwalking addicts are also trying to break free of the cycle of paid-for sex and drugs.