They throw a costume party complete with booze, floozies and a seance on the anniversary of the night of the clown's death at the hands of the angry townspeople.
Similarly, during the divorce referendum campaign, those opposed warned that feckless men would abandon their wives in droves and take up with some licentious floozy if it was introduced.
Alongside hunting parties and well-to-do landowners and burghers, we find a ragged rabble of floozies and farmhands, blacksmiths and street-vendors, barefooted scamps and beggars with peg legs.
