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noun

Bordello, Bordel n. A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution. (Obs.)

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"Bordello" Quotes from Famous Books

... records that one Hero, after conversation with a prostitute, fell a victim to an abscess on the penis (phagedaenic shanker?). In 1347 the famous Joanna of Naples founded (aet. 23), in her town of Avignon, a bordel whose in- mates were to be medically inspected a measure to which England (proh pudor!) still objects. In her Statuts du Lieu- publiqued'Avignon, No. iv. she expressly mentions the Malvengut de paillardise. Such houses, says Ricord who studied the subject since 1832, were common ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

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... other evening when you addressed me in such gracious words, I was so treacherously inflamed, that not knowing my happiness to be so near, and not daring to confess my flame to you, I ran to a Bordel where all the gentleman go, and there for love of you, and to save the honour of my brother whose head I should blush to dishonour, I was so badly infected that I am in great danger of dying of ...

— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

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Words linked to "Bordello" : house of ill repute, massage parlor, brothel, whorehouse, house of prostitution, sporting house, building, cathouse, bawdyhouse