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Definition of Cutpurse

Cutpurse
Cutpurse Cut"purse` (k[u^]t"p[^u]rs`), n. One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse. --Shak.

Meaning of Cutpurse from wikipedia

- Mary Frith (c. 1584 – 26 July 1659), alias Moll (or Mal) Cutpurse, was a notorious English pickpocket and fence of the London underworld. Moll, apart from...
- Aporus unicolor, common name cutpurse, is a highly specialised spider hunting wasp from the family Pompilidae. Spinola originally thought that there were...
- an antigravity machine while chasing Molly, Kate's dog. Gideon Seymour, cutpurse and gentleman, hides from the villainous Tar Man. Suddenly the sky peels...
- Mary Frith ("Moll Cutpurse") scandalized 17th century society by wearing male clothing, smoking in public, and otherwise defying gender roles....
- the Theatre Royal, Bristol (for the Bristol Old Vic Company), playing Cutpurse (a thief among the audience for the play-within-a-play) in Cyrano de Bergerac...
- or kirtles worn beneath. Mary Frith, dramatised as the character Moll Cutpurse in The Roaring Girl, wore a black sa****uard over breeches. One of the earliest...
- chapbooks about notorious criminals such as Sawney Bean, **** Turpin, and Moll Cutpurse. Collected editions of these stories began to appear in the mid-18th century...
- the most important character of the story." In her performance as Moll Cutpurse in The Roaring Girl—at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in January 1983, and...
- prostitute Chicago May, who was profiled in books; Mary Frith, nicknamed Moll Cutpurse; the Gubbins band of highwaymen; and Cutting Ball, a notorious Elizabethan...
- 1981 Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, Pit Theatre, London, 1983 Moll Cutpurse, The Roaring Girl, Barbican Theatre, London, 1983 Marjorie, Extremities...