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Brothel   /brˈɑθəl/   Listen
Brothel

noun
1.
A building where prostitutes are available.  Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse.



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"Brothel" Quotes from Famous Books



... your brethren and fellow monks have resorted, and do resort, continually to her and other women at the same place, as to a public brothel or receiving house, and have received ...
— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude

... bank rolls of its clientele, and direct the flow of gold into the proprietor's coffers—not even women. As Dr. Bill declared in one of his infrequent outbursts of passionate protest: "The place is one darnation public brothel; a scandal to the northland, a shame ...
— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum

... women of whose character there could be no doubt whatever, began pouring in upon the island, for it was said that the buccaneers thought no more of a doubloon than of a Lima bean, so that this was the place for the brothel and the brandy shop to reap their golden harvest, and the island ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard I. Pyle

... the reader's attention to another and still more glaring evidence of the demoralization of social life in Charleston. A notorious woman, who has kept the worst kind of a brothel for years, where harlots of all shades and importations break the quietude of night with their polluted songs, becomes so bold in her infamy that she appeals to the gracious considerations of the city council, (board of aldermen.) How is this? Why, we will tell the reader:—She remained ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams



Words linked to "Brothel" :   building, massage parlor, edifice



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