Crossword-Solution: BAWDRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bawdry | n. | The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. |
| Bawdry | n. | Illicit intercourse; fornication. |
| Bawdry | n. | Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “BAWDRY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Obscene or coarse sexual language | 1 answer |
| Risque language | 1 answer |
| Rude sexual language | 1 answer |
| obscene talk or language | 1 answer |
| they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
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greedy person
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Sentences with BAWDRY (5)
Bold, Bawdry.] A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; Ð usually applied to a woman.
Interpreters of the Land "HE'S FOR A JIG or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps." Thought employs ideas, but having an idea is not the same thing as thinking.
Pleasance and Hope, Desire, Foolhardiness, Beauty and Youth, and Bawdry and Richess, Charms and Sorc’ry, Leasings* and Flattery, *falsehoods Dispence, Business, and Jealousy, That wore of yellow goldes* a garland, *sunflowers And had a cuckoo sitting on her hand, Feasts, instruments, and caroles and dances, Lust and array, and all the circumstances Of Love, which I reckon’d and reckon shall In order, were painted on the wall, And more than I can make of mention.
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled, if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? all which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well regulated ones.
There seems to be a notion that “bold bawdry and open manslaughter,” as Roger Ascham said, are the staple of Tennyson’s sources, whether in the mediæval French, the Welsh, or in Malory’s compilation, chiefly from French sources.
Quotes with BAWDRY (1)
Spleen Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux, Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux, Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes, S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres bêtes. Rien ne peut l'égayer, ni gibier, ni faucon, Ni son peuple mourant en face du balcon. Du bouffon favori la grotesque ballade Ne distrait plus le front de ce cruel malade; Son lit fleurdelisé se transforme en tombeau, Et les dames d'atour, pour qui tout prince est beau, Ne sav…
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