Meaning of bawd | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who keeps a brothel, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer or madam.
   archaic, historical
2. A person who facilitates an immoral act, especially one of a sexual nature.
   broadly, obsolete
3. A lewd person.

Equivalents

Examples

“Of late in the Park, a fair fancy was seen / Betwixt an old Baud and a lusty young Quean, / Their parting of Money began the uproar, / I'll have half says the Baud, but you shan't says the Whore”

“As Whores decay'd and past their Labours, / Turn Bawds, and so assist their Neighbours.”

“[…] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]”

“Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law.”

“In ſaying this thou wrongſt me Gaueſton, / Iſt not enough that thou corrupts my Lord, / And art a Bawd to his affections, / But thou muſt call mine honour thus in queſtion?”

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