bawd

But there it was, love, disorganizing men's and women's lives, driving toward destruction and death, turning topsy-turvy everything that was sensible and considerate, making bawds or suicides out of virtuous women, and scoundrels and murderers out of men who had always been clean and square.

Or, to hit the case still more nearly, he felt the same compunction with a bawd, when some poor innocent, whom she hath ensnared into her hands, falls into fits at the first proposal of what is called seeing company.

They may be slaves, bawds, soldier rivals, or the puella's family members.

You less--only imagine the "bawds of euphony" too agree

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These are incontrovertibly 'bawdy women' or 'bawds', so that bold, which was used by the dictionary along with gay to define bawd, is here occupying the same semantic territory as bawd.

of tarts.' A dietician diagnosed the bawds: 'An expanse of broads.' A jeweler assayed the self-same maids: 'A ring of jades.' 'To me,' said a dancer, 'a wiggle of wenches.' 'To me,' said a chemist, 'a beaker of stenches.' 'A cargo of baggage'--such was the guess Of Henry, who drives for American Express.

Ensler's accents are rough approximations--no dialect coach is credited--and sometimes it's hard to tell at first whether she's playing a new character, reprising one or being "herself." The latter dominates, in any case, providing blunt insights ("I was desperate to please my father"), often crude laugh lines (she's closer in style than she'd like to think to such lounge-act bawds as Totie Fields and Sophie Tucker) and general whining that seems a tad depressing coating from a self-described 30-year activist and feminist theater vet.

Common Carmen" would consort with "Bawds," according to John Dunton.

There are plenty of bawds in background shots, but where are the women who lived with these underpaid workers and brought up their children?

English people, of course, "disdained to be bawds - Fraus of Flanders were women for that purpose." So that is what Henry VIII was obviously thinking of when he described Ann of Cleves as "that Flanders mare."