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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
bawdry
    n 1: lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room
         bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
         [syn: bawdry, bawdy]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bawdry \Bawd"ry\, n. [OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie,
   boldness, joy. See Bawd.]
   1. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of
      lust.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Illicit intercourse; fornication. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of
      the pit bawdry." --Steele.
      [1913 Webster]
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