bawd

• No sooner had I reached the place, than that French bawd, her mother, screamed out: Pagolo! —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• Thus had Savage perished by the evidence of a bawd, of a strumpet, and of his mother; had not justice and compassion procured him an advocate, of a rank too great to be rejected unheard, and of virtue too eminent to be heard without being believed. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), Vol. V.
• The bawd, while her husband was swearing, took Mr. Dyer upstairs, and there with a wheedling tone asked him if Moll should not bring them a quartern of brandy to drink his and his spouse's health, but before Dyer could give her an answer, she issued a positive command herself, whereupon up comes Moll and the quartern. —  Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• The noble bawd, however, is an artificial creation of literature and never could be a biolog. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• The bawd (_yarité_), aroused and passing, saw the shadow of the raised dagger. —  Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

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