Meaning of found-in | Babel Free

Definitions

One who is known to have been present in a brothel or other illegal establishment, regardless of whether they were actively engaging in illegal activities.

historical

Examples

“Twenty-five-year-old Garnet Plum was convicted of being a found-in in a common bawdyhouse.”

“He was charged with being a "found-in, without lawful excuse" because of his presence at a party where the person giving the party was convicted of serving liquor to a person who was already intoxicated.”

“Arrested as found-ins and charged as “public vagabonds and Bawds” were his son Joseph, his daughter Mary, his son-in-law Anthony Billow (alias Beleau, Bellew, Bellow, Bellows, etc.), and Jane Graham, wife of Henry Garret, a black woman arrested several times as a prostitute.”

CEFR level