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bawdry

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bawd·ry  (bôdr)
n.
Risqué, coarse, or obscene language.
[Middle English bawdery, pandering, from bawd, bawd; see bawd.]
bawdry [ˈbɔːdrɪ]
n
Archaic obscene talk or language
bawdry
1. Archaic. the practice or occupation of being a bawd or procurer.
2. Obsolete, fornication or unlawful intercourse.
See also: Sex
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Noun1.bawdry - lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
bawdy
dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity, smut, filth - an offensive or indecent word or phrase


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Two were "taken out of a notorious and reputed house of Bawdry in Company with Lewd women," and had assaulted him in their anger at being stopped in their activities.
Policing male heterosexuality: the reformation of manners societies' ... by Hurl-Eamon, Jennine / Journal of Social History
We whose wallets depend on the Bard rarely admit that the Fool's bawdry may evoke "the wearisome uneasiness which one experiences when listening to jokes which are not witty" (51).
Oxford Shakespeare topics. (Review Essay) by Bly, Mary / Renaissance Quarterly
Women and slaves work; chieftains fight, raid, pillage, and (in Ascham's phrase) perpetrate "bold bawdry.
Castigating Livy: the rape of Lucretia and 'The Old Arcadia.' by Shuger, Debora / Renaissance Quarterly
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