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noun

Bawdry n.

The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

Illicit intercourse; fornication.

Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of the pit bawdry."

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Etymology of 'Bawdry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bawdry" Quotes from Famous Books

... kind that my experience had never permitted me to see before. In place of ordinary kings and queens and knaves, these figures were represented in attitudes and costumes the most indecent—such as the prolific genius of Parisian bawdry alone could conceive and delineate. It seems to be a general opinion among rogues that knavery is never wholly triumphant unless the mind is thoroughly degraded; and for this reason it is, perhaps, that establishments devoted to purposes ...

— Confession • W. Gilmore Simms

... put into the reckoning too, and is the dearest parcel in it. No citizen's wife is demurer than she at the first greeting, nor draws in her mouth with a chaster simper; but you may be more familiar without distaste, and she does not startle at bawdry. She is the confusion of a pottle of sack more than would have been spent elsewhere, and her little jugs are accepted to have her kiss excuse them. She may be an honest woman, but is not believed ...

— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle