(now, rare, historical) A loose women's morning gown, popular in the eighteenth century.
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 400:
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(colloquial, now, rare, UK, dialect) A slut; an untidy or slatternly woman.
: As for her other lover, Mr Ricketts, he very shortly after her premature death sought comfort for himself in the arms of a vulgar, huge, coarse Irish slammerkin, Miss Prendergast.
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