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  • noun Plural form of lupanar.

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Examples

  • It was reported to him that Karáchi, a townlet of some two thousand souls and distant not more than a mile from camp, supported no less than three lupanars or borders, in which not women but boys and eunuchs, the former demanding nearly a double price,360 lay for hire.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And I, meanwhile, will enter one of those lupanars of thought; for three months I will be a journalist.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • She was not physically as vigorous or brutal as those other women whom he had encountered in the lupanars, thus far — raw, unashamed contraveners of accepted theories and notions — and for that very reason he liked her.

    The Financier 2004

  • To king's courts she lifted him; to thieves 'hovels she thrust him down; and past Lutetia's palaces and abbeys and taverns and lupanars and gutters and prisons and its very gallows -- past each in turn the man was dragged, that he might make the Song of Paris.

    The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

  • She was not physically as vigorous or brutal as those other women whom he had encountered in the lupanars, thus far -- raw, unashamed contraveners of accepted theories and notions -- and for that very reason he liked her.

    The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • Certainly, for unction spiced with ferocity, for a madness which alternately kissed the Crucifix and trampled on it, for mandragora and _fleurs de lys_, saints and succubi, churches and lupanars -- commend me to Siena the red.

    Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • Let the soldiers fight; it was their duty, not theirs; and, as the struggle continued, from roof and window they eyed it with that artistic delight which the arena had developed, applauding the clever thrusts, abusing the vanquished, robbing the dead, and therewith pillaging the wineshops, crowding the lupanars.

    Imperial Purple Edgar Saltus 1889

  • There was nothing represented but the adventures of deceived husbands, adulteries, intrigues of libertines, incidents in lupanars.

    Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

  • Protestants and Catholics tried, to some extent, to throw the blame of the lupanars on each other.

    Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

  • + Perhaps the most incredible case to illustrate the power of the mores to extend toleration and sanction to an evil thing remains to be mentioned, -- the lupanars which were supported by the mediæval cities.

    Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

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