Hey sugarbeans, look what I found on blue gown (dress.)
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/blue+gown
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blue gown
1. A female prostitute. The phrase derives from the blue gowns that convicted prostitutes once had to wear in houses of correction.
Those poor blue gowns will have nowhere to turn when they’re released, and most likely will end up here again.
2. A licensed beggar in Scotland (who traditionally wore a blue gown).
If you don’t take this job, you’re going to end up a blue gown, begging on the streets!
I have been thinking of you, Cats! All well in the panhandle, no canes bothering you?
Which blue gown, the one Klintoon is wearing in the painting?
Gives me new perspective the song “Devil with the Blue Dress”