Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A house of prostitution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as bordel. B. Jonson; Milton.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a building where prostitutes are available for hire; a brothel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
brothel
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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The bordello is run by sultry vampire women who feast on their customers and use their profits to fund a corrupt religious organization run by Chris Sarandon, none other than "Princess Bride" villain Prince Humperdink himself.
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The British literary bordello is heaving with flabby novels; it's time to give back some love to the story.
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A new restaurant and bar has opened, Mechicano, which looks like a red bordello from the sidewalk but which is a fun spot with live music many nights as well.
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The British literary bordello is heaving with flabby novels; it's time to give back some love to the story.
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Indeed, they held her in deep respect and affection, and I gathered that being bought for her bordello was a matter of close competition among the Orleans fancies, and about as difficult as getting into the Household Brigade.
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It has been lovingly characterized as boasting the fuzzy, lush decor of a 1970s German bordello, which is both true and misleading.
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Indeed, they held her in deep respect and affection, and I gathered that being bought for her bordello was a matter of close competition among the Orleans fancies, and about as difficult as getting into the Household Brigade.
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Indeed, they held her in deep respect and affection, and I gathered that being bought for her bordello was a matter of close competition among the Orleans fancies, and about as difficult as getting into the Household Brigade.
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And what they currently find there might best be described as a bordello of indeterminate purpose: everything from shopping tips to a discussion on the deeply important subject of "vibrators: friend or foe?"
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When his teenage daughter, in Season 3 being raised by Hank in California while her mother takes a job in New York tells him she lives in a "bordello," all he can do is nod, agree, and apologize.
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misterpolly commented on the word bordello
Italian for brothel. Now commonly used in Italy to mean:
either a lot of something
or a mess.
Same can be said of its synonym "casino" (not casinò).
February 5, 2008