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Definition of Bawds
1. bawd [n] - See also: bawd
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bawds
Literary usage of Bawds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis: Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber Horn by Henry Thomas Riley, John Carpenter, London Guildhall, Great Britain Public Record Office, British Library (1859)
"... AS TO HARLOTS AND bawds. VENDIS ; ET DE RETIBUS, ET CONSERVATIONS [ITEM, ...
lez bones and bawds. gentz de la Garde ascuns homes pur comunes pu- tours, ..."
2. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... none but civil guests Now only free for panders, whores and bawds, Strumpets
and such."—Ibid. p. 120. " WHERE shall we dine to-day ? Dal. ..."
3. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"In 1604, we hear of "your bawds about London in the manner of starch women, which
is the most unsuspected habit that can be to train out a mistress ..."
4. A Character of the Province of Maryland by George Alsop, John Gilmary Shea (1880)
"59), as if they had taken their Degrees of Entrance at Venice, and commenced
bawds of Art at ... bawds ..."
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