subs. (old).—A bawd; a prostitute: see TART. Also (quots. 1607 and 1693) = a woman; a PIECE (q.v.).

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  [?].  Michaelmas Term, The Second Part, 75.

        For when all the gallants are gone out o’ th’ town,
  O then these fine PINACES lack their due lading.

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  1607.  DEKKER and WEBSTER, Northward Hoe, v. 1. There is as pretty a little PINNACE struck sail hereby, and come in lately!—she’s my kinswoman … her portion three thousand; her hopes … better.

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  1614.  JONSON, Bartholomew Fair, ii. 1. She hath been before me—punk, PINNACE and bawd—any time these two and twenty years, upon record in the Pie-Poudres.

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  1693.  CONGREVE, The Old Bachelor, v. 7. A goodly PINNACE, richly laden…. Twelve thousand pounds and all her rigging, besides what lies concealed under hatches.

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