bawd
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“The impudence of a bawd is modesty compared with that of a convert,” said George Savile, the first marquess of Halifax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Words such as scold, shrew, termagent, witch, harlot, bawd, and tramp were all at one point in their histories terms for men; furthermore, the terms were usually neutral and sometimes even adulatory.
From Salon ● May 11, 2013
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 ● May 1, 2010
Or bawd bree, the rich hare broth of Scotland?
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus their false moderation, and their affected purity, by the natural operation of everything false and everything affected, becomes pander and bawd to the unbridled debauchery and licentious lewdness of usury and extortion.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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