subs. phr. (venery).—The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE.
1619. MASSINGER and FIELD, The Fatal Dowry, iii. 1.
| He toil’d to climb up to the PHŒNIX’ NEST, | |
| And in his prints leaves your ascent more easy. | |
| I do not know, you that are perfect critics, | |
| In women’s books, may talk of maidenheads. |
c. 1620–44. HERRICK, Hesperides, ‘Love perfumes all Parts.’
| If I kisse Anthea’s brest, | |
| There I smell the PHENIX NEST … | |
| Hands, and thighs, and legs, are all | |
| Richly aromaticall. |
