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bawd  (bôd)

n.

1. A woman who keeps a brothel; a madam.

2. A woman prostitute.

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[Middle English, probably from Old French baud, merry, licentious, from Old Low German bald, bold, merry; see bhel-² in Indo-European roots.]

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bawd [bɔːd]

n Archaic

1. (Business / Professions) a person who runs a brothel, esp a woman

2. (Business / Professions) a prostitute

[from Old French baude, feminine of baud merry, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German bald bold]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

bawd - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl call girl - a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone camp follower - a prostitute who provides service to military personnel comfort woman, ianfu - a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II; "she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman" demimondaine - a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker, floozie, floozy, hooker - a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets white slave - a woman sold into prostitution adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"

Translations

bawd (archaic) [bɔːd] N → alcahueta f

bawd

n (= brothel keeper) → Bordellwirtin f, → Puffmutter f (inf)