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Noun
autem mort (plural autem morts)
- (archaic, thieves' cant) A married woman.
1556, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors,:These Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their Language is a church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe I have, that goeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth not.
1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2:The Autum-Mort finds better sport / In bowsing then in nigling.
1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood:Morts, autem morts, walking morts, dells, doxies, kinching morts, and their coes, with all the shades and grades of the Canting Crew, were assembled.
- (idiomatic, archaic, thieves' cant) A female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.
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- Grose (1811) “Autem mort”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. , London: C. Chappell, , →OCLC.
- (1788) “Autem mort”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: S. Hooper, , →OCLC.
- Albert Barrère and Charles G Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “autem mort”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant , volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 54.
- John S Farmer, compiler (1890) “autem mort”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. ">…], volume I, ">…] Thomas Poulter and Sons] , →OCLC, page 81.