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Definition of Bawd

Bawd
Bawd Bawd, n. [OE. baude, OF. balt, baut, baude, bold, merry, perh. fr. OHG. bald bold; or fr. Celtic, cf. W. baw dirt. Cf. Bold, Bawdry.] A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.
Bawd
Bawd Bawd, v. i. To procure women for lewd purposes.

Meaning of Bawd from wikipedia

- Prostitution is a type of **** work that involves engaging in ****ual activity in exchange for payment. The definition of "****ual activity" varies, and is...
- entirely in dialogue published in 1499. Sometimes called in English The Spanish Bawd, it is attributed to Fernando de Rojas, a descendant of converted Jews, who...
- or "novel in dialogue," by Fernando de Rojas, under the title The Spanish Bawd. James Mabbe may also be the "I. M." who wrote the fourth commendatory verse...
- Year Title Role Notes 1961 Pirates of Tortuga Bawd Uncredited 1961 Seven Women from **** Regan 1961 The Second Time Around Girl Uncredited 1963 Take Her...
- his play Troilus and Cressida (1609). Shakespeare's Pandarus is more of a bawd than Chaucer's, and he is a lecherous and degenerate individual. In The Duke's...
- residents were called by many names, some euphemistic—e.g., abandoned woman, bawd good-time daisy, fallen angel, fille de joie, jeweled bird, lady of the evening...
- of the Spartans (season 2-3) Anna Calder-Marshall as Mrs. May, a retired bawd, once the mistress of Lydia Quigley's late father, who acts alternatively...
- Drawer, of the Blue Tavern in Billingsgate Security, an elderly usurer; bawd to Quicksilver Winifred, Security's young wife Bramble, a lawyer Scrivener...
- (1990) Written on the Body (1992) Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd (1994) Great Moments in Aviation: the script (1995) Art Objects: Essays in...
- wife Marinadaughter to Pericles and Thaisa Lychoridanurse to Marina A Bawd (female owner of a brothel) Diana Gower as Chorus Lords, Knights, Gentlemen...