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cover-sluts

cover-sluts is the plural of cover-slut.

Meaning of cover-slut

Noun

cover-slut (plural cover-sluts)

  1. (obsolete) An apron or pinafore, worn to hide slovenliness (such as dirt, stains, or tears) in the clothing beneath.
    • Nor let your women there appear / With dirty ſmock-ſleeves, foul head-geare, / With Cover-ſlut from Neck to Toe, / As Maids to morning Lectures go.1678, John Phillips, “Book V”, in Maronides, or, Virgil Travesty, page 15
  2. (broadly, figuratively, obsolete) Any surface appearance hiding something underneath.
    • Fie, madam, you'll ruin the sex! Husband, say ye? A mere thing—a cover-slut of custom!1690, John Wilson, Belphegor, act 2, scene 3; republished in The Dramatic Works of John Wilson, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874, page 320

Questions about cover-sluts

What is cover-sluts the plural of?
Cover-sluts is the plural of cover-slut.

Words near cover-sluts in the dictionary

  1. cover-girl
  2. cover-girls
  3. cover-shame
  4. cover-shames
  5. cover-slut
  6. cover-sluts
  7. cover-the-buckle
  8. cover-the-buckles
  9. cover-up
  10. cover-ups
  11. coverability

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