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brothel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brothel \Broth"el\, n. [OE. brothel, brodel, brethel, a prostitute, a worthless fellow, fr. AS. ber['o][eth]an to ruin, destroy; cf. AS. bre['o]tan to break, and E. brittle. The term brothel house was confused with bordel brothel. CF. Bordel.] A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"bawdy house," 1590s, shortened from brothel-house, from brothel "prostitute" (late 15c.), earlier "vile, worthless person" of either sex (14c.), from Old English broðen past participle of breoðan "deteriorate, go to ruin," from Proto-Germanic *breuthan "to be broken up," related to *breutan "to break" (see brittle). In 16c. brothel-house was confused with unrelated bordel (see bordello) and the word shifted meaning from a person to a place.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A wretch; a depraved person; a lewd man or woman. Etymology 2
n. A house of prostitution.
WordNet
n. a building where prostitutes are available [syn: whorehouse, bordello, bagnio, house of prostitution, house of ill repute, bawdyhouse, cathouse, sporting house]
Wikipedia
A brothel is a place where people may come to engage in sexual activity with a prostitute, sometimes referred to as a sex worker. Technically, any premises where prostitution commonly takes place qualifies as a brothel. However, for legal or cultural reasons, establishments sometimes describe themselves as massage parlors, bars, strip clubs body rub parlours, studios or by some other description. Sex work in a brothel is considered safer than street prostitution.
Brothel is a 2008 film written and directed by Amy Waddell. The film stars Serena Scott Thomas, Brett Cullen, Timothy V. Murphy, and Bruce Payne. The film was filmed in Jerome and Clarkdale, Arizona.
Usage examples of "brothel".
She groaned and cursed and they bargained back and forth, both enjoying the encounter, both knowing that the real cost of the medicine and medical advice was hardly significant to a brothel mama-san.
In the movie, an especially hypocritical and corrupt police inspector accomplishes this by doubling as a pimp and a landlord for a eunuch-transvestite brothel on Falkland Road.
Did Mr Garg sell them back to a brothel, or did he wait for them to grow old enough to be Wetness Cabaret material?
Deepa that the girl is running away from a brothel before anyone is touching her.
Dieter had given her something venereal, although her memory of that brothel in Kamathipura, and how familiarly Dieter had spoken with the madam, gave Nancy good reason to be worried.
This was only when she was in the presence of her betters and as practice for a time to come when, she told herself, she would run the most exclusive brothel in London Town.
Mary took up her abacus and fled from the brothel, running wildly into the dockland night.
Then she made the suggestion to Ikey that she work without salary at his bookkeeping and that, in addition, she be allowed to open a brothel in Bell Alley in partnership with him.
Mary, he told himself, knew decidedly more of whoring than of clerking, and as the mistress of a brothel as well as his bookkeeper she would be tied to him for ever.
An agreement was struck between them whereby Ikey would put up the capital for the brothel for which he would receive seventy percent and Mary thirty percent after the deduction of running expenses.
At the same time he allowed that Mary should owe him thirty percent of the total cost of refurbishing, to be paid off from her future brothel earnings.
London brothel, Mary would refuse him and often in the process offend some high-ranking toff.
Ikey arranged to meet the two boys at the Bell Alley brothel half an hour hence.
Ikey was almost certain that the City police would not be interested in arresting Mary as a brothel keeper.
The female wickedness of running a brothel far transcended the loan of the finance to set up such a business, or even the crime of enjoying the profits resulting from such a loan.