premises

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See premise

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛmɪsɪz/
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Noun

premises pl (plural only)

  1. plural of premise
  2. Land, and all the built structures on it, especially when considered as a single place.
  3. (law) The subject of a conveyance or deed.
  4. (slang, archaic, euphemistic) The vagina.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
    • 1683, The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony, London: [] H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, [], published 1760, pages 81–82:
      [] ſhe charges her to put him to it as a virgin ought to do; and farther, that as ſoon as he entered the premiſes, with fome feigned reluctancy on her part, muſt fall into a fainting ſhriek, as if ſhe had fallen into a cold water in a hot fit.

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