Bawds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 64 anagrams from letters in bawds (abdsw).
1325-75; Middle English bawde, noun use of Middle French baude, feminine of baud jolly, dissolute West Germanic; compare Old English bald bold
The allusion to Tarsia suggests some notice of the practice of the Roman bawds when they had secured a virgin.
If your worship will take order for the drabs and the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds.
All fortune-tellers are bawds, and, for that reason, are so much followed by people of fashion.
All that seems wanting to complete the list is that we should turn pimps and bawds.
He consists of double beer and fellowship, and his vices are the bawds of his thirst.
Where are the mothers that play the bawds to their own daughters?
Ladies who employ men in the offices which should be reserved for their sex, are they not bawds in effect?