Obs. Also 6 stromperie. [f. strump shortened form of STRUMPET + -ERY.] The practice of harlotry or prostitution.
c. 1470. Ashby, Active Policy, 533. And robbery lafte by that exercise, And strumpery als by this entreprise.
a. 1553. C. Bansley, Treatise (Percy Soc., 1841), 9. Nowe fye upon proude strumpery.
1565. T. Stapleton, Fortr. Faith, II. v. 116 b. The roote whereof [sc. of that gospel] was the breache of virginitie, and an imfamous stromperie.
1573. G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden), 113. A sinke of strumperye.
