bawd

/bɔd/
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Definitions of bawd
  1. noun
    a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
    synonyms: cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl
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    call girl
    a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone
    camp follower
    a prostitute who provides service to military personnel
    comfort woman, ianfu
    a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II
    demimondaine
    a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society
    floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker
    a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
    white slave
    a woman sold into prostitution
    type of:
    adult female, woman
    an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
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