Meaning of autem mort | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A married woman.
   archaic
2. A female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.
   archaic, idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

“The Autum-Mort finds better sport / In bowsing then in nigling.”

“Morts, autem morts, walking morts, dells, doxies, kinching morts, and their coes, with all the shades and grades of the Canting Crew, were assembled.”

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