puss gentleman:

(Effeminate) male homosexual . Usage, now obsolete; was based on the cat-like animal of that name (also called a civet cat) that secretes a yellowish, musky fluid.

QUOTE: William Cowper (1731-1800). Conversation : ' I cannot talk with civet in the room / A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume .'

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