Obscenity; unchaste language.
"I have no salt; no bawdry he doth mean; For witty, in his language, is obscene."
-B. Johnson
Bawd:
A procurer, or procuress; one that introduces men and women to each other, for the promotion of debauchey.
to bawd:
To procure; to provide gallants with strumpets.
"And in four months a batter'd harridan;
Now nothing's left, but wither'd, pale, and shrunk,
To bawd for others, and go shares with punk."
-Swift

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