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▪ 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; the business of providing opportunities for sexual immorality.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 348 Me thoght..I shold wene hit were a bawdery. 1447–8J. Shillingford Lett. (1871) 104 Yif any such mysrule and bawdery bee within the saide taverne. 1569J. Sandford Agrippa's Van. Artes 97 Bawdrie is the arte of assaultinge and makinge common an others chastitie. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. xxiv. xlii. (1678) 571 The most filthy and infamous Arts of Baudery. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 42 Bawdry..is a wicked Practice of procuring and bringing Whores and Rogues together.
†2. gen. Unchastity, fornication. Obs.
1460in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 97 And he be getten in bawdre. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. iii. 99 We must be married, or we must liue in baudrey. 1651Weldon Crt. Jas. I, 7 For the bringing this bawdery to a marriage.
3. Lewdness in speech or writing; lewd, obscene, or filthy talk, etc.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 23 If Martin speake broad bawdrie. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 194 He has the prettiest Loue-songs for Maids, so without bawdrie. 1711Steele Spect. No. 51 ⁋2 No one ever writ Bawdry for any other Reason but Dearth of Invention. 1792A. Young Trav. France 135 A voluble garniture of bawdry or nonsense.
b. attrib. = bawdy a.2
1763Churchill Duellist 111 Poems II. 36 Bawl'd bawdry songs to a Psalm Tune.
†4. Material filth; dirt, defilement. Cf. bawdy a.1 Obs.
1648Herrick Hesper. 141 (D.) And have our roofe..And seeling free From that cheape candle baudery.
▪ II. † bawdry2 Obs.
[? f. baude gay.]
Finery.
a1529Skelton Agst. Garnische 40 Crimson velvet for your bawdry. 1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 216 Bawdry, i.e. bravery..lautitia vestium.
▪ III. bawdry3
obs. form of baldric.
a1697Aubrey in D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 293 They wore about their necks a great horn..in a string or bawdry. |