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Meanings of brothel in English
A building where prostitutes are available.
Synonyms
Examples for "whorehouse"
Examples for "whorehouse"
1
It's a very beautiful place, but it's not a whorehouse, he says.
2
Anyone caught hanging around in a whorehouse, he thought, deserved exactly this.
3
Did you go to the Greek whorehouse they set up in Cyrene?
4
They had probably gone straight to the whorehouse next door, he concluded.
5
Keys to the warehouse, keys to the greenhouse, keys to the whorehouse.
1
Inside, it's a cross between a bordello and a natural history museum.
2
One day, she decided to visit a bordello on her lunch break.
3
At age 15 he began playing ragtime piano in a Baltimore bordello.
4
It's much nicer than that tacky bordello where we have to interact.
5
In its ambience it is closer to a bordello than a nunnery.
1
Check every bawdy house, bagnio, Blind Tiger, and frab-joint in the city.
2
Gone, perhaps, to attend the bagnio pander, grown rich by his extravagance.
3
They are fit for a bagnio rather than a public exhibition.
4
In a word, it is the aristocracy of the bagnio.
5
Yet again, he was a little sick of the women of the streets and the bagnio.
1
And I tell the po-lice the Night of Joy a glorify cathouse.
2
I'm sorry, I should've said so first thing-itwasn't a cathouse or anything.
3
I was drinking in a cathouse when I heard about the Ais Maraxa.
4
Wiring a girl's room in a cathouse was a big laugh.
5
The current Bastarache hadn't a clue the place was being used as a cathouse.
1
Which its a series that takes place in a house of prostitution in Nevada.
2
He had become disgusted with his role as landlord for a house of prostitution.
3
Let us take every saloon, every house of prostitution of men and women for God.
4
The royal palace was a house of prostitution.
5
The duo explained they were interested in formulating a cable series based in a house of prostitution… View Article
1
The dreadful spectacle of Aileen in a house of ill repute burned in his brain.
2
That night, under a full moon, the men sauntered over to the house of ill repute.
3
These uptown houses of ill repute had discreet name plates: Fifi, or Madame Bettina.
4
There were gambling houses of ill repute, an open court for cockfighting, and other pastimes.
5
He discovered her in houses of ill repute.
1
Forbidding gambling, like the attempt to close the bawdyhouses, however-notto mention hopes for the Catholic cause in Europe-waswishing for the sky.
1
He's all for sport and such like, and 'The Tiger's' a very sporting house.
2
Oh-youmean a-a sporting house.
3
"So did you ask Tresjolie for a line of credit at her sporting house?" Tawny asked when Surplus reported his adventure to his confederates.
1
After closing her maison de joie she ceased to be "bonne camarade et bonne fille" in the tough de tough quarter of the Judean metropolis.
Usage of brothel in English
1
The boudoir in the palace answered to the brothel in the barracks.
2
Women are bought and sold in nearly every brothel in the place.
3
It might have taken us years to find this brothel without you.
4
A brothel representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
5
I just said I could get you a job in a brothel.
6
It was one of six times she appeared in court for brothel-keeping.
7
Your petition read as if it had been written in a brothel.
8
Charlie is a cockatiel whose early years were spent in a brothel.
9
But why would someone choose a cold pavement over a warm brothel?
10
A plumber who came to fix it described scenes of a brothel.
11
You may see them vomiting in every alley, squabbling at every brothel.
12
He would be tortured and Beth would get sent to the brothel.
13
Writer and actor preview 'Famous Flora' play about 1940's Auckland brothel Madame.
14
It was not just Capeville and the brothel in which she worked.
15
That brothel where we met, did you take it for a sept?
16
You see, I've come here to spend the day in a brothel.
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Ireland
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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