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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
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bawd
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synonyms: madam ???
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Definition:a woman in charge of a brothel; a madam
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The interested care that was taken of me during my illness, in order to restore me to a condition of making good the bawd's engagements, or of enduring further trials, and however such an effect on my grateful disposition, that I even thought myself oblig'd to my undoers for their attention to promote my recovery;
John Cleland. Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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Methinks I see him entering ordinaries,
Dispensing for the pox, and plaguy houses,
Reaching his dose, walking Moorfields for lepers,
And offering citizens' wives pomander-bracelets,
As his preservative, made of the elixir;
Searching the spittal, to make old bawds young;
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist
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Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,
Not of that dye which their investments show,
But mere implorators of unholy suits,
Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Win. Jenkins was darted through a small window in that part of the carriage next the horses, where she stuck like a bawd in the pillory, till she was released by the hand of Mr Bramble.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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how great a share in the motions and events of courts, councils, and senates might be challenged by bawds, whores, pimps, parasites, and buffoons.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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