Well attestedNamed from the place
Fulham virgin
noun · first attested 19th century
Fulham was English slang for cheating long before it was slang for vice.
A promiscuous woman or a prostitute.
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Fulham
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Fulham virgin
Loaded dice were called fullams or fulhams from the sixteenth century, a name attached to the same riverside district, and Shakespeare uses the word in The Merry Wives of Windsor. The nineteenth century added Fulham virgin to a long list of London place names used for prostitutes, beside Covent Garden nun, Drury Lane vestal and Bankside lady. The phrase is an oxymoron, which is the whole joke.
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