fishmonger's daughter

fishmonger's daughter
   obsolete
   a prostitute
   As with fish market, a brothel, the allusion is olfactory:
    Excellent well, you are a fishmonger. (Shakespeare, Hamlet — Hamlet speaking to Polonius, implying that the latter's daughter, Ophelia, was a prostitute. Polonius misses the point, only to take another behind the arras in the third act)

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