soiled dove

== English == === Noun === soiled dove (plural soiled doves) (obsolete, euphemistic) A disreputable woman, sometimes a prostitute. 1867, Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), Idalia […] thought the telegraphist, with a yawn, returning to his dog-eared green-covered shilling novel, relating the pungent adventures of a soiled dove of St. John's Wood, […] ==== References ==== John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary