bawd
bawd
- n a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
- Yet, though brightened, his Troilus is not bowdlerized: at the big moments Achilles is gangster enough, and Cressida (well played by lovely Rosemary Harris) enough of a bawd.
- For a lady, Auntie Mame wasn't too bawd at all.
- Moll Flanders, another notable 18th century bawd, was of course the creation of Daniel Defoe.