| 词汇 | ladies of the line |
| 词源 | ladies of the line. We have all heard of the self-explanatory la- dies of the night, for prostitutes, but why ladies of the line? The expression comes to us from the American West, where prosti- tutes did business in tents and jerry-built shacks stretched out in lines at the outskirts of towns, mining camps, or railroad yards. |
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