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






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"Bawd" Quotes from Famous Books



... with men of earth; where flying horses and talking fishes are utterly realistic: where King and Prince meet fisherman and pauper, lamia and cannibal; where citizen jostles Badawi, eunuch meets knight; the Kazi hob-nobs with the thief; the pure and pious sit down to the same tray with the bawd and the pimp; where the professional religionist, the learned Koranist and the strictest moralist consort with the wicked magician, the scoffer and the debauchee- poet like Abu Nowas; where the courtier jests with the boor and where the sweep is bedded with the noble ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

... Grosvenor, 'MS. L'. ('b')] does not bet; but every man who maintains racehorses is a promoter of all the concomitant evils of the turf. Avoiding to bet is a little pharisaical. Is it an exculpation? I think not. I never yet heard a bawd praised for chastity, because 'she ...
— Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1 • Byron

... these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance; Or crafty malice might pretend this praise, And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise. These are, as some infamous bawd, or whore, Should praise a matron; what would hurt her more? But thou art proof against them, and, indeed, Above the ill-fortune of them, or the need. I, therefore, will begin: Soul of the age! ...
— Discoveries and Some Poems • Ben Jonson



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



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