subs. (popular: c. 1860–6).—A fashionable whore: see TART.

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  1864.  G. A. SALA, Quite Alone, i. Is that ANONYMA driving twin ponies … a parasol attached to her whip, and a groom with folded arms behind her? Bah! there are so many ANONYMAS nowadays. If it isn’t the Nameless One herself, it is Synonyma.

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  1865.  OUIDA, Strathmore, vi. I’m getting tired of Mondes, one confounds … with Demi-monde, and aristocrats that are so near allied to ANONYMA.

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  1865.  Public Opinion, 30 Sept. These demi-monde people, ANONYMAS, horse-breakers, hetairæ … are … pushing their way into society.

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  d. 1868.  H. J. BYRON [MSS. Additions to Slang Dictionary (HOTTEN) now in B.M.]. Miss——, said to have been the real ANONYMA, died at Paris.

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  1873.  BULWER-LYTTON, Kenelm Chillingly. The carefully sealed envelopes containing letters from fair ANONYMAS.

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  1881.  DORAN, In and About Drury Lane, II. 159. ANONYMAS, who dress with such exquisite propriety lest they should be mistaken for modest women.

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  1889.  Modern Society, 13 July, 852. Matters are … complicated when his mother-in-law mistakes his buxom laundress for a fair ANONYMA.

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  1900.  R. H. SAVAGE, Brought to Bay, ii. Hawtrey piloted the innocent cowboy out of the evening crowd of ANONYMAS.

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