brothel

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  1. noun A house of prostitution.

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  • The dominant feelings she had been sensing around the brothel were anxiety and anticipation. —  PRIESTESS OF THE WHITE
  • A Bradford house being used as a brothel was uncovered by police last night in a raid which led to the arrests of four people.
  • She said 'Mandi' based on life in a brothel was also a satire on society. —  Screen News
  • "We particularly want to endorse the value and protection of women in our city and I don't believe a brothel is a place where women are cared for, looked after and valued," she said. —  Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • [1238] A convent is described as a brothel for neighboring nobles. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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  1. Short for brothel-house, from Middle English brothel, prostitute, from brothen, past participle of brethen, to go to ruin, from Old English brēothan, to decay.

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  1. Middle English, also brethel (and corruptly brodel, brodelle), a wretch, a depraved man or woman; der. bretheling, a wretch; from Anglo-Saxon *breóthan, only in comp. ā-breóthan, ruin, frustrate, past participle ābrothen, degenerate, base, trifling; connections doubtful.
  2. An early modern English corruption of Middle English bordel, a house of ill-fame, by confusion with Middle English brothel, a wretch: see brothel.
  3. from brothel, n. Cf. bordel, n.
 

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