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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whorehouse
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An earlier attempt to set up a women's refuge in Ramallah failed after city elders branded it a whorehouse.
▪ Conti was off in some mental whorehouse.
▪ It teemed with mansions, restaurants, hotels, theaters, and whorehouses.
▪ Of course, the newspapers were filled with it, and the docks, railyards, and whorehouses were jammed with soldiers.
▪ Sounded like a goddamn whorehouse up there.
▪ The condition was that the transaction be conducted in whorehouse terms: he paid the trick, he called the shots.
Wiktionary
whorehouse

n. (context vulgar English) brothel.

WordNet
whorehouse

n. a building where prostitutes are available [syn: brothel, bordello, bagnio, house of prostitution, house of ill repute, bawdyhouse, cathouse, sporting house]

Usage examples of "whorehouse".

He and Father were arrested in Chicago after doing considerable property damage in a whorehouse there, and Father was found to have gonorrhoea, and so on.

He, who could never get up nerve enough to even go to a whorehouse unless someone was with him, chuckled and grinned shyly at his own deception.

Catholic church in back of them, as sacred as the whorehouse in Pankow where he had met with Kalinin so long ago, and just as passionless: this was hard, tedious work, but it had to be done.

Dick Stens hung out with known armed robbers, bet with bookies, took his salary in cash and frequented whorehouses.

Palace was what the Professor in one of his primmer moods would have referred to as a house of ill repute: the biggest, busiest, most red-plush-and-gilt-trim-bedecked whorehouse in Flatlands Portcity.

He tried a couple of more whorehouses that were much like the first place, but had no luck at either.

Kamala says that you might have some musicals about whores and whorehouses in your library banks.

He is an incorrigible scamp born to Spring Fragrance in the Yangzhou whorehouse, Vernal Delights.

End of the Line consisted of two hotels, a rooming house for more permanent visitors, a series of small spaceship hangars, a post office, a whorehouse, three empty buildings whose purposes were long since forgotten, an assayers’ office, a general store, and the End of the Line Bar, which was also a restaurant, a book and tape store, a subspace transmitting station, a gambling parlor, and a weapons shop.

End of the Line consisted of two hotels, a rooming house for more permanent visitors, a series of small spaceship hangars, a post office, a whorehouse, three empty buildings whose purposes were long since forgotten, an assayers’ office, a general store, and the End of the Line Bar, which was also a restaurant, a book and tape store, a subspace transmitting station, a gambling parlor, and a weapons shop.

And besides, you're forgetting that the girl was bought in a whorehouse auction.

I had learned that the whorehouses on the islands were a chain of contacts for dischargers, a place of resort, of help.

In any event, Ben Hill was on leave from the Navy that weekend so we split the dance early and drove up the hills to Jamestown, an old mining town with five whorehouses we visited monthly.

There was a drug den, a betting parlor, a bar, another drug den, a pornographic stage show, a whorehouse for men, a whorehouse for women, a whorehouse for aliens, and a whorehouse for those desiring that most taboo of vices—.

They hadn't been able to locate him in any of the blind pigs or whorehouses where he usually holed up, but he could have found a new place.