I could not but admire a certain degree of slattern elegance about the baggage.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Little was known of his housekeeper, a sour and sharp-tongued slattern of uncertain age, but there were those who suspected that she was not entirely innocent of complicity in her employer's clandestine activities.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
The saloons were all doing a land-office business, with the holiday impending and the thermometer at 97. Now and then, slattern women, in foul clothes and with huge, gelatinous breasts, could be seen rushing the growler, at the "family entrance" of some low dive.
"The Air Trust"
George Allan England