Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bawdry"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bawdry \Bawd"ry\, n. [OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie,
boldness, joy. See {Bawd}.]
1. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of
lust.

2. Illicit intercourse; fornication. --Shak.

3. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. ``The pert style of
the pit bawdry.'' --Steele.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

bawdry
n : lewd or obscene talk or writing; " it was smoking-room
bawdry" or "they published a collection of Elizabethan
bawdy" [syn: {bawdy}]

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