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ben mort (複数形 ben morts)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) Good woman.
   • 1610, Rowlands, Samuel, “Towre Out Ben Morts”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris^[1], published 1896, page 5:

     Towre out ben morts & towre, / Looke out ben morts & towre, / For all the Rome coues^[sic] are budgd a beake, / And the quire coves tippe the lowre.

   • 1611, Middleton, Thomas, “The Roaring Girl”, in Bullen, Arthur Henry, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton^[2], volume 4, published 1885, Act 5, Scene 1, pages 128–129:

     Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.

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• ben cove, ben cull