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Italian
Etymology
From a term meaning "woman of the gualdàna". Gualdàna is a historical term used for a brigade or group (brigata) of hunters who patrolled a gualdo "forest (archaic)".
Noun
sgualdrina f (plural sgualdrine)
- trollop, slut
Further reading
Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “sgualdrina”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati