Wiktionary
bawdy-houses
n. (bawdy-house English)
Usage examples of "bawdy-houses".
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.