trollopee

English

Noun

trollopee (plural trollopees)

1. (obsolete) A kind of loose dress for women.
   • 1759, Oliver Goldsmith, "On Dress", The Bee, (No. ii., Oct. 13), reprinted in Essays, "Essay XV", page 124, published 1765

     There goes Mrs. Roundabout, I mean the fat lady in the lutestring trollopee.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trollopee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)