bawd old-fashioned

She says enough; yet she's a simple bawd That cannot say as much.

Then one night an old bawd took ill at the inn.

She chooses, however, to become an independent sexual entrepreneur rather than to continue working from her mother's house or for another bawd.

Fancy men, bawds, someone who has a vested interest in keeping them alive.

I nursed an old bawd in her failing years and she taught me something of the Art.

We may have discovered the southeastern repository for surplus bawds.

How would you live, Pompey- by being a bawd?

By the same token, you are a bawd.

At the start, the girl meets a bawd, a woman who persuades her to take up prostitution.

Your daughters are the bawds of the nation.

The latter appears in other records as a known "bawd", or keeper of prostitutes.

A bawd of eleven years' continuance, may it please your honour.

They've all emigrated elsewhere and what remains are just the bawds in the big city, not real belly dancers.

Do you take me for a bawd?

She was a lady and a bawd, a roisterer and priest.

The six bawds said they under- stood.

He's a notorious bawd and a womanizer-an exceptionally vigorous one, even by my standards.

"She is a bawd, if the stories can be believed, and likes women as well as men in bed.

Hence with her, out o' door: A most intelligencing bawd!

If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds.

If imprisonment be the due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right.

He cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd.

She had not the look nor sound of a bawd; not even of a servant.