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Bawd

noun

A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money. Synonyms: cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl.

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"Bawd" Quotes from Famous Books

... exhortations, but to have the utmost submission to his will; and, that she may not mistake the nature of that submission, he tells her it is the same that Sarah had for Abraham; to which submission Isaac perhaps was owing. No bawd could have written a more seducing letter to an innocent country girl, than the 'directeur' did to his 'penitente'; who I dare say had no occasion for his good advice. Those who would justify the good 'directeur', alias the pimp, in this affair, must ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

... study of the common people. These plays are happy and high-spirited and, compared with the ordinary run of the tragedies, of better workmanship. They deal in the familiar situations of low comedy—the clown, the thrifty citizen and his frivolous wife, the gallant, the bawd, the good apprentice and the bad portrayed vigorously and tersely and with a careless kindly gaiety that still charms in the reading. The best writers in this kind were Middleton and Dekker—and the best play to read as a sample of it Eastward Ho! in which Marston put off his ...

— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair

Words linked to "Bawd" : call girl, woman, camp follower, street girl, white slave, whore, ianfu, floozy, comfort woman, hooker, demimondaine, hustler, slattern, streetwalker, floozie, adult female