Well, here's the amazing thing, Stephanie. According to the OED, "piece" has been used of women since... 1400! Originally quite positive in connotation but already by the 1600s beginning to be derogatory, as in this quotation: 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. i. 191 A waspish cholerick slut, a crased peece. Cool, eh?
Ha! I wondered about some of those ('get in touch', especially).
ReplyDeleteAnother this article didn't mention: Carson called Lavinia "that blonde piece" which struck me as rather Dashiel Hammett-esque.
Well, here's the amazing thing, Stephanie. According to the OED, "piece" has been used of women since... 1400! Originally quite positive in connotation but already by the 1600s beginning to be derogatory, as in this quotation: 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. i. 191 A waspish cholerick slut, a crased peece. Cool, eh?
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