loselry arch.
(ˈləʊzəlrɪ)
[f. losel + -ry.]
Performance characteristic of a losel; profligacy, debauchery, rascality.
| 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. cxcviii. 178 The false spencers, the whiche he mayntened thurgh loselrye ageynst his honour. 1522 Skelton Why nat to Courte? 661 By sorsery Or suche other loselry. 1594 O. B. Quest. Profit. Concern. 13 To haue him Lord it out thus vnder my nose, and I to sweate and swinke, to maintaine his lozelrie. 1894 F. S. Ellis Reynard the Fox 215 Surely my first thought was that she Had been judged for some loselry. |