(n.) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.
(v. i.) To procure women for lewd purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until the 2003 Sexual Offences Act, Murdoch and his bawds could see nothing wrong in exhibiting 16-year-olds, such as Samantha Fox, a schoolgirl when she first went on display.
Cyprian
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to Cyprus.
(a.) Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot.
(n.) A lewd woman; a harlot.
Example Sentences:
(1) "These were very decent men who had done more work than anybody in examining police killings," said Cyprian Nyamwamu, the executive director of the National Convention Executive Council, a non-governmental organisation advocating social and economic reform.
(2) A more moderate conclusion comes from the historian Tom Holland: “The likelihood that the biblical story records an actual event is fairly small.” Cyprian Broodbank, the Disney professor of archaeology at Cambridge University, wrote in his recent history of the Mediterranean that the exodus was “at best a refracted folk memory of earlier expulsions of Levantine people” following the reconquest of the Nile delta by the Egyptian king Ahmose around 1530BC.
(3) He would sometimes address letters direct to me on some occasion, such as when my Cousin King Cyprian died.