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  • noun Plural form of bawdyhouse.

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Examples

  • We had Utah Mormons, who had absolutely no qualms about hauling their ashes in our infamous bawdyhouses and trying their luck on our crap tables.

    Beard 2010

  • But here it was said how these idle fellows have had the confidence to say that they did ill in contenting themselves in pulling down the little bawdyhouses, and did not go and pull down the great bawdy-house at White Hall.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 63: March 1667-68 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • But here it was said how these idle fellows have had the confidence to say that they did ill in contenting themselves in pulling down the little bawdyhouses, and did not go and pull down the great bawdy-house at White Hall.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • But here it was said how these idle fellows have had the confidence to say that they did ill in contenting themselves in pulling down the little bawdyhouses, and did not go and pull down the great bawdy-house at White Hall.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • But here it was said how these idle fellows have had the confidence to say that they did ill in contenting themselves in pulling down the little bawdyhouses, and did not go and pull down the great bawdy-house at White Hall.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1667/68 Pepys, Samuel 1668

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