Bawd"ry (?), n. [OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie, boldness, joy. See Bawd.]
1.
The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
2.
Illicit intercourse; fornication.
Shak.
3.
Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.
"The pert style of the pit
bawdry."
Steele.
© Webster 1913.