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noun

Blowess, Blowen n. A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. (Low)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blowess" Quotes from Famous Books

... to MR. BLOWEN requires that we should explain that his article in No. 68. was accidentally inserted after he had expressed his wish to withdraw it, in consequence of MR. WAY'S most satisfactory paper ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 • Various

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... Isodore maintaine: Yet for all that they do not all in one accord remaine. Here also is set downe the late discouered burning Zone By Portingals, vnto the world which whilom was vnknowen. Whereof the knowledge now at length thorow all the world is blowen. ...

— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt

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... Thus hath Avaunter blowen ev'rywhere All that he knows, and more a thousand fold; His ancestry of kin was to Lier,* *Liar For first he maketh promise for to hold His lady's counsel, and it not unfold; — Wherefore, the secret when he doth unshit,* *disclose ...

— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer

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