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Bawd   Listen
verb
Bawd  v. i.  To procure women for lewd purposes.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bawd" Quotes from Famous Books



... anything they must write their names in his alphabetical book with their own handwriting. By this trick he kept them in awe, if they should complain of his abusing them, as in truth he did nothing else. Besides, it was believed, some meetings were at his house, wherein the art of the bawd was more beneficial to him than that of a conjurer, and that he was a better artist in the one than in the other: and that you may know his skill, he was himself a cuckold, having a very pretty wench ...
— She Stands Accused • Victor MacClure

... favours were as likely to be mine soon as late; and when I thought of the real stake for which I was playing, I could not endure the suspense. No more was I satisfied at contact with the coarse and bawd company that surrounded ...
— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid



Words linked to "Bawd" :   woman, prostitute, tart, street girl, camp follower, adult female, whore, hustler, harlot, ianfu, cyprian, fancy woman, woman of the street, comfort woman, streetwalker, floozy, white slave, lady of pleasure, floozie, slattern



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