† bronstropsn.
Obsolete.
A procuress or bawd. (Frequent in Middleton.)
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > procuress
butcheressa1475
stew1552
bawdress1569
brokeress1582
pander1585
abbess1594
aunt1604
panderess1604
hackney womanc1616
bronstrops1617
procuress1638
provincialc1640
fruit-woman1673
flesh-broker1699
broker-woman1723
commode1725
coupleress1864
hack1864
procureuse1930
1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell iv. sig. G2v I say thy Sister is a Bronstrops.
1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell iv. sig. G2v A Bronsterops is in English a Hippocrene.
1661 Cure for Cuckold iv. i. sig. F A Tweak, or Bronstrops: I learnt that name in a Play [i.e. in Middleton's].
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