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[syn: prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bawd \Bawd\, n. [OE. baude, OF. balt, baut, baude, bold, merry,
perh. fr. OHG. bald bold; or fr. Celtic, cf. W. baw dirt. Cf.
Bold, Bawdry.]
A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women
for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person;
-- usually applied to a woman.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bawd \Bawd\, v. i.
To procure women for lewd purposes.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bawd
n 1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn:
prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart,
cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady,
lady of pleasure, woman of the street]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "bawd":
fancy man, gigolo, harlot, hooker, madam, maquereau, meretrix,
moll, nightwalker, pander, panderer, pimp, poule, procurer,
procuress, streetwalker, white slaver, whore