Blue Gown (A)
.A harlot. Nares tells us that “a blue gown was a dress of ignominy for a harlot in the House of Correction. (See below.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.