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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bawd /bɔːd/

▶noun archaic a woman in charge of a brothel.

– origin ME: shortened from obs. bawdstrot, from OFr. baudestroyt ‘procuress’, from baude ‘shameless’.

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