The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bordel \Bor"del\, Bordello \Bor*del"lo\, n. [F. bordel, orig. a
little hut, OF. borde hut, cabin, of German origin, and akin
to E. board,n.See. Board, n.]
A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
[Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
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Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context now rare English) A brothel. Etymology 2
n. 1 brothel, whorehouse. 2 (context slang Czech) fuck-up (big mistake). 3 (context vulgar Czech) mess (gloss: disagreeable mixture or confusion of things)
Usage examples of "bordel".
A fat man, clothes all-unbuttoned, reeled out of a bordel and made for the nearest lift.
Stories of girls drugged and even kidnapped, and brought further afield, to the bordels of Bruce and An-twerpen.
This fisherman's child, workhouse girl, ancilla of the bordels, with the thin smattering of the three R's she had acquired in the poor institution, set herself, with a wholehearted concentration which a Newnham `swot' might envy, to master modern languages, with Greek, Latin, and music.
From its situation with respect to the Hoang-ho, or Yellow River, we are enabled to ascertain it to be the city visited by Shah Rokh's ambassadors, when they had crossed the famous bridge of boats, and of which, after describing the magnificence of its great temple, it is said: "Ils y remarquèrent trois bordels publics, où il y avoit des filles de joye d'une grande beauté.
The first night at anchor, the sound of music, of drunken laughter and the shrill cries of women at play and at work carried across the still waters to the nine Hottentot musketeers in their corner of the forecastle, and the lights of the bordels and bars along the waterfront were as irresistible to the nine as a candle to a hawk moth.