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eh hem! Please use the right terms. A prositute's client is referred to as a punter - a "gentleman" is almost the exact opposite.
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...true, but a 'punter' can still be a "gentleman" as a prostitute can be a "lady".
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Just as her Murder site has been lost so has her Grave. See http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rn_graves.html
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And the term gentleman can be used ironically, particularly as in a Victorian context when people normally perceived as gentlemen (a rather Victorian concept, in fact) were more than likely to be prostitutes' clients.
There would be a lot of very dull reads - and things that would never get read - if writers were not allowed some artistic licence. |
> "cat's meat"
This doesn't mean what I think it does, does it? Were people really that hungry? |
"This doesn't mean what I think it does, does it? Were people really that hungry?"
No, cat's meat = meat for cats (before the advent of modern tinned/dry pet food), e.g. Matthew the cat's meat man was a friend of that great animal-lover Dr Dolittle in Hugh Lofting's series of books, which was where I first encountered the term as a child. |
Cat's meat would almost certainly have been horsemeat.
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