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2. A pubic wig . Defined by Captain Francis Grose in Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' Counterfeit hair for women's privy-parts .' According to Lawrence Paros. The Erotic Tongue (1984): ' A smallpox epidemic resulted in considerable fallout in the most exotic places. Thoroughly embarrassed by their baldness, women fashioned artificial hairpieces known as merkins (merkin also being a long standing name for the female genitalia , 17 th C) .'
3. An artificial vagina .
4. According to a Web site devoted to slang, the term now refers to: ' a straight man married to or involved-with a lesbian '. In this sense, to man serves as ' beard ' to camouflage a lesbian's sexual-orientation .
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