palliards

• And charm all the palliards about ye; [2] —  Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
• Japan received its laws from the wise men of China, "said Xavier," it was known amongst you, that theft and adultery were to be avoided; and from thence it was that thieves and palliards sought out secret places, wherein to commit those crimes. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16
• "fraters," "palliards," "Abrams," "dummerers"; and of women, "demanders for glimmer or fire," "mortes," "walking mortes," "doxes," "kinching coves." —  For Whom Shakespeare Wrote

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