Wiktionary
alt. (context now chiefly historical formal English) A brothel; a house of prostitution. n. (context now chiefly historical formal English) A brothel; a house of prostitution.
Usage examples of "bawdy-house".
We did lose ten, not having time to comb though all the bawdy-houses or the backsides of godowns.
Most of the men he smuggled were a foul-mouthed bunch of villains – bravos, bungs, cutpurses, nose-slitters, ruffians of every description, all of them recruited in the worst bawdy-houses and taverns of London or Paris and then paid a slave's wages to betray their friends and countries, which most were only too eager to do.
In the West Indies he always cruised with a miss aboard, and he allowed his officers and even mids so much liberty when he had the Semiramis that she was a floating bawdy-house - that the Admiral himself took notice of.