Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A house of prostitution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wretch; a depraved person; a lewd man or woman.
- noun A house of lewdness; a house appropriated to the purposes of prostitution; a bawdy-house; a stew.
- To haunt brothels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A house of
prostitution .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a building where prostitutes are available
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Wow, Americans think the government spending money like drunken sailors in a brothel is a bad idea?
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Your being caught in a raid on a brothel is an offense.
A Simple Case 2010
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Your being caught in a raid on a brothel is an offense.
A Simple Case 2010
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Your being caught in a raid on a brothel is an offense.
A Simple Case 2010
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WE GOT FAMILY VALUES … …. well a brothel is a family of sorts.
Think Progress » Early Media Coverage of Goss’s Resignation Dances Around Cunningham Scandal 2006
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Do you think showing people how to set up a child brothel is acceptable?
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Chesterton said, “Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.”
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The recession has taken its toll on a Berlin brothel's regular business, so the owner is targeting a new clientele.
Archive 2009-07-12 Tyler 2009
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To prevail, the government should have had to show the law was narrowly tailored to advance the government interest in reducing commercial sex — but since every brothel is licensed and tax by the state of Nevada, the state had the ability to advance that goal in many ways that did not implicate free speech.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The First Amendment and Advertisements of Legal Prostitution 2010
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Do you think showing people how to set up a child brothel is acceptable?
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