Obs. rare. [ad. L. spintria.]
1. A species of male prostitute.
The L. form is used as a pl. by Goldsm. Cit. World, xxxiv.
1598. Grenewey, Tacitus, Ann., VI. i. (1622), 121. Then first of all were those vnknowen words of Sellaries and Spintries found out of the filthines of the place.
1603. B. Jonson, Sejanus, IV. v. [Some] are ravish’d hence, like captives, and … dealt away, Unto his spintries, sellaries, and slaves.
2. A place used for unnatural practices.
1649. C. Walker, Hist. Independ., II. 252. Their new erected Sodomes and Spintries at the Mulbury-garden at St. Iames’s.
