bawdy

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Warren’s bawdy comedy was tame by the profanity-laced standards of today, but it was considered so outrageous for its time — especially coming from a woman — that she was effectively banned from television and radio.

RUSTY WARREN, WHOSE RACY JOKES ABOUT SEX MADE HER A ’60S COMEDY STAR, DIES AT 91MATT SCHUDELMAY 28, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Four engravings and at least six pamphlets, all focusing on the bawdy house story, were shortly in circulation.

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Eight men marched one evening into Llanyglo, bawling a bawdy chorus, with Sam Kerr showing the way.

MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONS

I ha lost by her squeamishness, more than would have builded twelve bawdy-houses.

THE MERMAID SERIES. EDITED BY H. ELLIS. THE BEST PLAYS OF THE OLD DRAMATISTS. THOMAS DEKKER. EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ERNEST RHYS.THOMAS DEKKER

"That was Belle Cora, who keeps that bawdy house up town," Nesbitt volunteered.

PORT O' GOLDLOUIS JOHN STELLMAN

A riotous twenty years in night saloons and bawdy houses had left him a kindly, choleric, and respected newspaper figure.

ERIK DORNBEN HECHT

A long-faced virgin trapped in a bawdy house and calling in valiant tones for a glass of lemonade.

ERIK DORNBEN HECHT

The mates own stories were usually bawdy; he always prefaced them with some unmanageable hilarity, which impeded his start.

THE SEA AND THE JUNGLEH. M. TOMLINSON

And I my selfe know certaine bawdy Marchants, amongst whom peradventure one will give us summes of gold for her.

THE GOLDEN ASSELUCIUS APULEIUS

Stay, Carlos; I am afraid you know something more of this bawdy business than you confess.

DRYDEN'S WORKS (8 OF 18): AMPHITRYON; KING ARTHUR; CLEOMENES; LOVE TRIUMPHANTJOHN DRYDEN

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