bawd

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Wags! 'n' Bawd, taking place in Latitude festival's Faraway Forest.

From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2010

He translated, with the same spirit as his Guzman, Celestina, or the Spanish Bawd, that singular tragi-comedy,—a version still more remarkable.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

What can be more inconsistent, than to see a Bawd at the Sign of the Angel, or a Taylor at the Lion?

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

I take the passage from that extraordinary Spanish comedy, in twenty-five acts, the Spanish Bawd.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

When the Bawd had made an end of Repeating her Verses, the Goldsmith's Lady told her they were very Ingenious and Diverting Lines, and that she had oblig'd her extreamly by repeating them.

From The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women by Anonymous