Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A brothel; a house of ill fame.

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Examples

  • While Italy criminalizes immigration, Lula, the good guy, turns Brazil into a whore-house.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Amnesty for illegal immigrants sparks hope and controversy 2009

  • He and Holmes could have caroused in every whore-house in London, and he would never have breathed a word of it.

    Sherlock Holmes (2009) Steven Barnes 2009

  • He and Holmes could have caroused in every whore-house in London, and he would never have breathed a word of it.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Steven Barnes 2009

  • He'd be too busy pushing gun slingers and whore-house dancers down the saloon stairs. whoops!

    They Fear Boris Newmania 2007

  • Young people would turn out in even larger droves than they have been turning out so far, and even Republican frat boys would switch parties for fear that they could not get laid in a whore-house with a fist full of twenty dollar bills if they did not caucus for Obama.

    Rasmussen: Hillary Ahead In Hypothetical New Florida Primary, Tied With Obama In Michigan 2009

  • This was almost the equivalent to selling your daughter to the whore-house but the girls went anyway.

    Tart of the Week: Maria Lady Coventry Heather Carroll 2008

  • The one-mile road to the village is lined by litter, a tire shed, a cantina—that is, a legal whore-house—and a number of unimproved homes and stores.

    Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

  • The one-mile road to the village is lined by litter, a tire shed, a cantina—that is, a legal whore-house—and a number of unimproved homes and stores.

    Gringos in Paradise Barry Golson 2006

  • God; I have heard him say that there is no world to come, no sin, nor punishment hereafter; and, moreover, I have heard him say that it was as good to go to a whore-house as to go to hear a sermon.

    The Holy War 2001

  • He was wearing a fur cap he had found in a closet in the whore-house.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

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