subs. phr. (common).—1.  A harlot working on the pavement; see TART. Hence STREET-WALKING = questing for men.

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  2.  (old).—See quot.

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  1618.  MYNSHUL, Essays on a Prison (1821), 59 [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, ii. 64. He has the new substantives key-turner (turnkey) and STREET-WALKER; these are both used of jailers].

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