painted lady en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Meanings
- Any of certain cryptic patterned butterflies of genus Vanessa (family Nymphalidae), especially Vanessa cardui.
- A painted trillium (Trillium undulatum), a forest wildflower of North America.
- A flower of the pea family (Gompholobium scabrum), native to southwestern Australia.
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(dated, historical, slang) A prostitute (in reference to their use of makeup).
In Cheyenne in 1883, a Dr. W.A. Wyan tried in vain to save painted lady Sallie Talbot.
2011, Jan MacKell, Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains, page 348:
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(US) A Victorian house repainted with vibrant colors to accentuate the architectural design, especially in San Francisco, California.
An archetypal American streetscape is lined with Aesthetic movement houses: Stick Style cottages with muscular roof trusses and exposed timbering; many-colored painted ladies with gingerbread porches; […]
2006, Karen Zukowski, Creating the Artful Home, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 80:
- A sea snail (Phasianella australis).
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| painted ladies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
hackney · gamester · coaster · floozie · cat · pug · Haymarket ware · brass · slapper · harlot · wanton · prozzy · blouze · hireling · good-time girl · broad · hustler · skainsmate · fille de joie · loose woman · party girl · drab · succubus · mob · geebag · dollymop · strumpet · cockatrice · sex labourer · doxy · punk · trull · public woman · tweak · jay · gillian · mutton · pro skirt · tart · prostitute · minx · sodomitess · laced mutton · lady of the evening · moll · girl rented overnight · wapping mort · meat puppet · lady of pleasure · put · woman of the town · working girl · slit · musk cat · pretty horsebreaker · ribibe · prossie · slag · trug · chippy · woman of the night · treddle · woman of easy virtue · pro · quene · trollop · soiled dove · mud kicker · Paphian · prosty · daughter of joy · almah · mort wap-apace · wapping moll · business girl · pimpette · sex worker · mudkicker · flap · gay lady · quiff · nymph of the pavement · painted lady · gill · stem siren · puella publica · alley cat · woman of the street · escort · frail sister · lady of the game · scrubber · wench · prostie · abandons · nymph of darkness · girl of the game · GRO · prostitutor · hook · brass nail · slut · pross · chromo · bargirl · hooker · bat · vice girl · priestess of Venus · quail · lightskirt · nymph of the pavé · prossy · callet · creature of the night · fornicatrix · thot · quean · mot · croshabell · beotch · comfort girl · tib · tawaif · pussygirl · wapping dell · commoner · cosmopolite · pavement princess · stew · pucelle · tom · Covent Garden nun · woman of ill repute · puta · 'ho · nun · woman of ill fame · hoe · blowen · perdita · lady of leisure · bangtail · cocotte · trick turner · comfort woman · blowsabella · lady of light virtue · mermaid · mud-kicker · karayuki-san · Bankside lady · brasser · skivvy · hoer · Dutch widow · Fulham virgin · thotty · calico queen · Japayuki-san · street taco · whore · prozzie · lady of the night
Translations (10)
hu bogáncslepke (butterfly) · nl distelvlinder (butterfly) · cmn 苧胥 (butterfly) · nv kʼaalógii yistłʼiní (butterfly) · bg дяволска пеперуда (butterfly) · cmn 小紅蛺蝶 /小红蛱蝶 (butterfly) · fr belle-dame (butterfly) · fr vanesse du chardon (butterfly) · fi ohdakeperhonen (butterfly) · mi pepe-para-hua (butterfly)