Sentence:  He did not relish the apparition of that Katherine, for when it appeared it seemed to bring with it a brother shadow that wore ragged clothes and tangled hair and foul linen, that drank from any flagon and drabbed with any <WSD>doxy</WSD>, that slept in tavern angles through hours of drunkenness, a thing whose fingers pillaged, filched, and pilfered when and where they could, a creature that once he saw whenever he stared into a mirror. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.