custom-house:

Or: Eve's custom-house / custom-house goods , 19 ^th century euphemism for the vagina , the institution where ' Adam made the first entry '. The custom officer , the penis . See vagina for synonyms.

Quote: Defined by Captain Francis Grose in Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' The stock in trade of a prostitute , because fairly entered .'

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