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Keeper of a house of ill repute
Answer for the clue "Keeper of a house of ill repute ", 4 letters:
bawd
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a complicated word of uncertain history. First attested late 15c., "lewd person" (of either sex; since c.1700 applied only to women), probably from baude-strote "procurer of prostitutes" (mid-14c.), which may be from Middle English bawde (adj.) "merry, ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn: prostitute , cocotte , whore , harlot , tart , cyprian , fancy woman , working girl , sporting lady , lady of pleasure , woman of the street ]
Usage examples of bawd.
So he returned with all speed to the play but, when I followed a few paces behind, I saw him in conversation with the whore or bawd he had called Marion.
So we entered, I making way for Marion, who gave the old bawd a curtsey as we crossed the threshold.
The old bawd hurried off, and Marion made a small motion with her hand as if to plead with me.
The bawd and one of the tapsters were knocked over as she and the Green Girl rushed out of the house.
Blue Girl had finally lost patience with the bawd and stepped inside to strike her.
Blue Girl, however, sensing that something was up, abandoned the bawd and rushed round to the back of the house.
He stood up and strode toward the bawd, ignoring the shouts and ribald comments.
Rene and his men to tend to the horses and themselves at a stable nearby, he went into the tavern, which was known to every cutpurse and bawd in London.
I knew the place: it was a brothel-house or place of disorder for bawds and whores which had more clients than Westminster Hall and more diseases than Newgate.
So I let them go and, turning away, walked through the crowd of bawds who were listening keenly in the next room.
Round the corner was another street which seemed much calmer, although again I was deceived, for this Drury Lane was accounted one of the most vile and dangerous in the city, full of bawds and cutthroats.
In the center of the barracks he found his key man, the obvious barracks bully, a monster of a man, naked, hairless, fondling two bawds and being fed whiskey by sycophants.
But in the barracks he screamed and wept again, and as Foyle led him down the long room, the naked bawds swept up armfuls of dirty clothes and shook them before his eyes.
Or, he is the Faustus, That casteth figures and can conjure, cures Plagues, piles, and pox, by the ephemerides, And holds intelligence with all the bawds And midwives of three shires: while you send in -- Captain!
His out thrust hand soon garnered the other three from the bawds, but of whatever treasures Edward Landis had sought to protect there was no evidence at all.