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bawdry
▪ I. bawdry1 arch. (ˈbɔːdrɪ) Forms: 4–8 bawdery, 4–7 baudery, 5 baudre, 6 baudrey, baudrye, bawdrye, (baudeir,) bauderie, baudrie, 6–7 baudry, bawdrie, 7–8 bawdry. [f. bawd n.1 + -ry; the sense does not agree with F. bauderie, which means simply ‘boldness, liveliness.’] 1. The practice of a bawd; th...
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Jig (theatre)
In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Polonius is insulted when Hamlet suggests that he'd prefer to see "a jig or a tale of bawdry" than a good play.
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baudery
▪ I. † ˈbaudery Obs. Also -erie, -rie, -ry. [a. OF. bauderie gayety, jollity, f. baud: see baude and -ry.] Gayety, jollity, mirth.c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1068 Beautee and youthe, bauderie, richesse.▪ II. baudery, -erie, -ry obs. form of bawdry.
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William Smellie (encyclopedist)
Burns also described him fondly in a letter as "that old Veteran in Genius, Wit and Bawdry".
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bawdreaminy
bawˈdreaminy nonce-wd. Bawdry.1608 Middleton Trick to Catch iii. ii, Thou cavernesed quean of foolery, knavery, and bawdreaminy.
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The English Moor
The two old men are shocked and embarrassed by her bawdry; Quicksands in particular is at a nonplus, and now feels inhibited from his wedding-night obligations
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gaudery
gaudery (ˈgɔːdərɪ) Forms: 6–7 gauderie, 7 gaudry, 6–7 gawdry, 7–8 -ery, 7– gaudery. [f. gaud n.2 + -ery.] † 1. Trickery. Obs.a 1529 Skelton Agst. Garnesche iv. 39 Garnyshe, ye gate [= you got] of Gorge with gawdry Crimsin velvet for your bawdry. 2. Gaudy or showy decoration, ostentatious show; finer...
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Ephraim John Burford
Private vices - public virtues: Bawdry in London from Elizabethan times to the Regency. Robert Hale, London, 1995.
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bordrie
† bordrie Obs. prob. = F. broderie, broderie de soie silken embroidery or embroidered work. (It can hardly be = bawdry, baldric.)1696 Aubrey Misc. 216 (D.) The meeting of the gentry..in the fields or forests, with their hawks and hounds, with their bugle-horns, in silken bordries.
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The Damoiselle
(Like taverns, ordinaries could serve as venues for other activities as well; in his play Brome refers to "gaming" and "bawdry" and "other by-way[s] of
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Donald Laycock
The Best Bawdry, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1982.
The World's Best Dirty Songs, Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, 1987, .
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Rosemary Lane (song)
Its potential for bawdry means that it was popular in male-centred contexts such as rugby clubs, army barracks and particularly in the navy, where it can
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Elizabeth Cresswell
broadsides, novels and party pamphlets, often portrayed as a caricature of vice, a satirical figure of street commentary, sexual theatre and political bawdry In 1681, she was brought to trial and convicted for "over thirty years of bawdry"; during the proceedings many of her own prostitutes testified against
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Harry Cox
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography concludes:He is admired for the breadth and variety of his repertory, some 140 items ranging from rough bawdry
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Warren Fahey
. - Australian bawdry, Bodgie Books
Manar: a Potts Point local history, Bodgie Books
Old Bush Songs - the centenary edition (with Graham Seal), ABC
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