Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A district or establishment offering erotic pleasures or entertainment.
- noun Sensual pleasure or sexual gratification.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel in which flesh is cooked.
- noun Hence (in allusion to the passage above quoted)
- noun Food; also, the indulgence of animal appetites.
- noun In heraldry, a bearing representing a three-legged iron pot, usually, though not always, depicted sable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked.
- noun plenty; high living.
- noun Places providing opportunity to indulge in amusements or pleasures without moral restraints.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place offering
entertainment of asensual orluxurious nature
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Examples
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He warned young men strenuously to avoid the "fleshpot" of Paris and not to fall in love with Europeans.
A Snippet Of Relevant History emmycantbemeeko 2006
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If you were to have stumbled into Red Medicine this winter, maybe late after a movie, maybe with a reservation you booked two weeks early on OpenTable, you might have encountered a dish called "early season roots and legumes," unpromisingly enough, an appetizer that sounds like something more often served at a Tarzana vegan café than at an advanced fleshpot of cuisine.
JGold Reviews Red Medicine LA Weekly 2011
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If you were to have stumbled into Red Medicine this winter, maybe late after a movie, maybe with a reservation you booked two weeks early on OpenTable, you might have encountered a dish called "early season roots and legumes," unpromisingly enough, an appetizer that sounds like something more often served at a Tarzana vegan café than at an advanced fleshpot of cuisine.
JGold Reviews Red Medicine LA Weekly 2011
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If you were to have stumbled into Red Medicine this winter, maybe late after a movie, maybe with a reservation you booked two weeks early on OpenTable, you might have encountered a dish called "early season roots and legumes," unpromisingly enough, an appetizer that sounds like something more often served at a Tarzana vegan café than at an advanced fleshpot of cuisine.
JGold Reviews Red Medicine LA Weekly 2011
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Unfortunately, Hanna and her millions are in Paris, having a fine time at the Belle Epoque fleshpot of Maxim's.
The Merry Widow – review Alfred Hickling 2010
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If you were to have stumbled into Red Medicine this winter, maybe late after a movie, maybe with a reservation you booked two weeks early on OpenTable, you might have encountered a dish called "early season roots and legumes," unpromisingly enough, an appetizer that sounds like something more often served at a Tarzana vegan café than at an advanced fleshpot of cuisine.
JGold Reviews Red Medicine LA Weekly 2011
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The Vieux Carre, you must know, is the old French heart of New Orleans, and one gigantic fleshpot fine houses and walks, excellent eating-places and gardens, brilliantly lit by night, with music and gaiety and colour everywhere, and every second establishment a knocking-shop.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Note how each gaudy fleshpot is smeared in alcoholic nectar.
E (novel extract) 2010
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I try to relive those star-kissed programs of the past, when Mommy would make popcorn on the stove (was there any other way?), and I would cuddle up, and get my education in Hollywood, the town that Mommy called "a fleshpot, a real lefty fleshpot".
Linda Keenan: No Golden Globe Glitz? Now My (Late) Mommy's Ripsh#t! 2008
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Mommy conveyed her knowledge of this lefty fleshpot as if Elizabeth Dole had suddenly taken on Joan Rivers 'job: she was ladylike, brutally honest, up on the gossip, and always added a dash of conservative commentary.
Linda Keenan: No Golden Globe Glitz? Now My (Late) Mommy's Ripsh#t! 2008
oroboros commented on the word fleshpot
Fleshpot is a phonetic reversal of top-shelf, i.e., containing the same sounds in reverse.
--From futilitycloset.com
March 8, 2009
madmouth commented on the word fleshpot
one of the only stews with licentious metaphorical associations.
April 18, 2009