bordello

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Turn six of them loose in millinery shop or the parlour of a bordello, and there will be no dispute whatsoever; each will offer the crown of love and beauty to a different girl And what aesthetic deafness, dumbness and blindness thus open the way for, vanity instantly reinforces.

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  • So far he's seen me wrestling with the trained bears at a bordello, carrying you off on my shoulder like a barbarian, and smashing his pretty face over champagne at a countess's fete Justin would have sworn it was a sparkle of mirth that warmed Emily's eyes. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • Jaggs, you really think ‘The Petting Place’ is a good name for a pet store Superintendent Matheson chose the name, not I, as you well know It sounds like a bordello or lap-dancing salon. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • The building which S. S. Officers used as a high-brow bordello, to which they whisked the Jewish women who'd caught their fancy, is still a functioning Pension, with a cute little sign adorned by a picture of a bed and silverware outside. —  Israel Hasbara Committee
  • Sydney's most famous bordello, A Touch of Class, is back in action, thanks to Underbelly.
  • Truly shocking and shameless, FASB's collapse Thursday under pressure from the national bordello on Capitol Hill. —  Floyd Norris
 

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  1. Italian, from Old French bordel, from borde, wooden hut, of Germanic origin.

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  1. Italian
 

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/bɔrˈdɛloʊ/
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