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found-in en · NOUN

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1. (historical) One who is known to have been present in a brothel or other illegal establishment, regardless of whether they were actively engaging in illegal activities.
   • Twenty-five-year-old Garnet Plum was convicted of being a found-in in a common bawdyhouse. 1981 December 27, “Accused Of Becoming An Activist”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 2:
   • He was charged with being a "found-in, without lawful excuse" because of his presence at a party where the person giving the party was convicted of serving liquor to a person who was already intoxicated. 1999 10, David Vanek, Fulfilment: Memoirs of a Criminal Court Judge, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 260:
   • Arrested as found-ins and charged as “public vagabonds and Bawds” were his son Joseph, his daughter Mary, his son-in-law Anthony Billow (alias Beleau, Bellew, Bellow, Bellows, etc.), and Jane Graham, wife of Henry Garret, a black woman arrested several times as a prostitute. 2010, Frank Mackey, Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760-1840, page 243:

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