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bawd::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
| Type of | adult female, woman |
| Has types | camp follower, comfort woman, demimondaine, floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, ianfu, slattern, street girl, streetwalker, white slave, call girl |
| Derivation | bawdy |
Examples of bawd
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Tom Ramirez is a comically hysterical vamp as the drag-bawd, Mistress Overdone.
From the sfgate.com
Moll Flanders, another notable 18th century bawd, was of course the creation of Daniel Defoe.
From the time.com
Vindice, adopting a disguise as a camp bawd, is intent on revenging the death of the woman whom he loved.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
A woman, possibly Moll's bawd and possibly the landlady, rifles Moll's possessions for what she wishes to take away.
From the en.wikipedia.org
From bawd to the Bard, it seems there's nothing Brand and Mirren can't do and continued success looks assured.
From the express.co.uk
Best of all is the wonderful, pivotal scene in which Tilly Tremayne's well-judged, shrewd widow takes on Harriet Walter's glittering bawd at chess.
From the guardian.co.uk
In one of her better performances, Taylor makes Kate seem the ideal bawd of Avon-a creature of beauty with a voice shrieking howls and imprecations.
From the time.com
In the spring they sprout from the sidewalks, squawking, cackling and ogling potential customers, fanning out from the bawd-walk they have made Times Square.
From the time.com
Her house was regarded as the most exclusive in London, superior to those of Covent Garden, even to that of the other notorious bawd of the time, Mother Wisebourne.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Prostitute: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
- Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. People who execute such activities are called prostitutes. Prostitution is one of the branches of the sex industry. ...
- A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; A lewd person; Joyous; riotously gay
- N.s. [baude, old Fr.] A procurer, or procuress; one that introduces men and women to each other, for the promotion of debauchery.
- Prostitute or brothel keeper.
- A woman who runs a brothel.
