bawdy-house

See also: bawdyhouse and bawdy house

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bawdy-house (plural bawdy-houses)

  1. (now chiefly historical, formal) A brothel; a house of prostitution.
    • 1980, Stew Newton, "Think About I!!", pamphlet reproduced in 1981, Feb 14, Alexander Wilson, "The New Right Attacks Childhood Sexuality: A Canadian Perspective", in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 7.
      Yet Sewell can publicly embrace a homosexual like George Hislop who helps to run a bawdy house for men and is a candidate for alderman in Ward 6.
    • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 57:
      The spread of venereal disease slaughtered innocent wives and families by the thousands; the plague of bawdy houses destroyed the peace and livelihood of honest citizens.

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